Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David 0. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, with all its dazzling cast and alleged $7 million cost, is nonetheless a horse opera. So are Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (which started out to be a story of Billy the Kid, but now features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan Bennett. ¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman...
Friedman has, nonetheless, avoided many pitfalls. His story moves directly and simply for two acts, and even in the slightly confusing third act never becomes over-complicated. And more rehearsals would have brought out some commendable dialogue which was bried yesterday in a morass of bad timing and missed cues. Again because of lack of rehearsals, acting and directing was not enough in evidence to necessitate comment. But once the Reading Theatre gets fully underway, productions should be much more careful, and the project should receive the popular response it deserves...
...election had been quiet and unemotional, but there was no mistaking the fact that the majority of Americans had cast a protest vote. It was a cold but nonetheless angry voice raised against many things: price muddles, shortages, black markets, strikes, Government bungling and confusion, too much Government in too many things. The majority of the people were fed up with all that...
...Nonetheless, for more than half a century, lovable Uncle Remus' quaint, shrewd, illiterate, good-natured philosophizing and storytelling have delighted millions of U.S. readers. The fictional figure is now brought efficiently to Technicolored life by Actor James Baskett, whose organ-toned voice, as the lawyer in radio's Amos 'n' Andy, first attracted Producer Disney's attention. Uncle Remus addicts are not likely to quarrel about the oversweetened characterization. With the exception of Baskett and two likable children (Bobby Driscoll, 10, and Luana Patten, 7), the live actors are bores...
...only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...