Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazilian hearts beat faster last week at the news that Private Oscar Corrêa dos Santos had been awarded 17 years' back pay. For Oscar Corrêa dos Santos, as every patriotic Brazilian knows, is one of two remaining survivors of the heroic Dezoito do Forte (Eighteen of the Fort...
...contraption for making people invisible. However, the story rapidly runs out of breath, thereafter staggers through a plodding plot about a fatuous young moneybags (John Howard) who is inexplicably attracted to the unseen subject of the Barrymorian experiments (Virginia Bruce). Added but unnecessary wrinkles are furnished by eyebrowed Oscar Homolka, a gangster who steals Barrymore's machine for nefarious purposes...
Ginger Rogers can not only sing, dance, and be a bachelor mother; she can act. In the movie version of Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle Miss Rogers proves herself worthy of a Little Oscar at the end of the year. The action in the movie is almost nil, as the theme of the work is the circumstances which make up the life of the feminine white collar worker of the past decade. When woman got the right to vote she put herself on the same plane as man and her troubles began. Kitty Foyle is a character-who comes from...
...year 1940 found the man, as well as the man the year. It found him speaking, not only as a Briton, but as an American, taking his words from Oscar Hammerstein and Edna Ferber: "These two great organizations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along...
...pretty fair murder mystery. On the evening of his first try at playacting, the novelist is found shot in his hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers probably get their money...