Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wake Up and Dream (20th Century-Fox) is pretty, mildly relaxing and aggressively whimsical. Adapted from a sweet little Robert Nathan novel (The Enchanted Voyage), it is an almost overpoweringly sweet little movie. It shows how a peculiar old man (Clem Bevans) and a pair of young lovers (John Payne and June Haver) put themselves to enormous trouble to humor a daydreaming child (Connie Marshall...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rather glossy Technicolored version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks (TIME...
...trappings of mysticism and profundity that a facile pen alone can put across, the story reduces itself to a basic substance which is, at most, pretty shadowy. It's really too bad that when the Hollywood moguls finally forgot about the kind of treatment they usually inflict upon a novel they couldn't have picked a story of at least some significance...
...history in the New York City public schools. Later, when he became an editor of the Communist New Masses, he learned another version. Last week New York City's Board of Superintendents voted to ban 32-year-old Alumnus Fast's fast-selling (875,000 U.S. copies) novel Citizen Tom Paine from all public-school bookshelves...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rather glossy Technicolored version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks in Florida (TIME...