Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anybody. Fire had burned out his Manhattan apartment, and the dogged Studs Lonigan serialist faced the future practically barehanded. Up in flames (besides bales of literary notes, diaries, unpublished articles, critical essays, odds & ends); more than 50 unpublished short stories, mostly unfinished; about 100 pages of an unfinished novel (abandoned); a completed novelette, part of another; several hundred pages deleted from Farrell novels before publication; the original (unpublished) ending to Studs Lonigan; 400 pages from an unpublished sequel to Gas House McGinty...
Lady in the Lake (MGM) is an amusing cops-&-killer chase, based on Raymond Chandler's hard-breathing novel. As both director and star, ex-Commander Robert Montgomery plays Chandler's famed private detective, amoral Phillip Marlowe,* and also polishes off his first major directing job with dash and considerable imagination...
...diehard SS men supplies obvious possibilities for an adventure story, and this one makes the most of them. Author Millar, 35, fought with the British in Egypt, with the Maquis in France, and wrote two exciting autobiographical books about it (Waiting in the Night, Horned Pigeon). His first novel, and his third book to be published in the U.S. in the past year, packs all its action and reflection into one week in May 1945, in a secluded Austrian valley -less than a week after...
...qualities of suspense and its Austrian atmosphere, Author Millar's story recalls Ethel Vance's best-selling novel Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939). Not particularly profound, it is swift and very readable. As a novel it has a fault typical of most such efforts to recreate recent history: the writer has tried to include characters symbolic of everything, from France to the U.S. officer corps...
...Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel's bulky Ma Baxter...