Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady with the mole is Cleo, cinemactress heroine of a new novel-his first by versatile Cinemactor Errol Flynn...
Author Flynn gestated Showdown (Sheridan House; $2.50) in nightly, four-hour stretches over a period of nine months. The novel, laid in the South Seas, features lusts, busts, tropic moons and cheesecake. "I don't know why I did it," confessed Author Flynn (who is considering making only one movie a year so that he can devote himself to prose). "I won't make any money. Critically, I am bound to be slaughtered. If the reviewers do like it, they'll probably say it was written by somebody else...
Tomorrow Is Forever (International-RKO Radio) is a specious, stylishly dressed domestic drama starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles-as well as cinema's old friends Rip van Winkle and Enoch Arden. Derived from a lending library novel of the same title, the film concerns a young lady (Claudette) who believes that her husband (Welles) was killed in World War I. After a longish period of mourning, she reluctantly remarries. But husband No. 1, by no means dead, continues to live on in Europe. On the eve of World War II, he returns to the U.S. with a foster...
...Take it slowly, easily," said the blue-grey-eyed psychiatrist (who, as this book's laconic hero, has helped to win its author the $10,000 Harper Prize Novel Contest). "Listen, don't you want me on the couch?" muttered John Brown, who had come to his session of psychoanalysis feeling as supine in body as in mind...
Colonel Effingham's Raid (20th Century-Fox), from the novel by Berry Fleming, tells the story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most...