Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bean may not win the 1940 Academy Award, but it will give cinemaudiences a good idea why he is a director's actor. At 46, he is a World War I veteran (having lost his teeth and acquired a grating voice from a gas attack), a two-time Oscar winner (Come and Get It, Kentucky). Practically never on the screen without an old man's makeup, the real Brennan can still stroll unnoticed along the streets of Hollywood, a slight, sandy-haired, balding man who might be a real-estate salesman...
Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...
After yielding precedence to New York and Chicago, patient Boston's turn to live with father has arrived at last. And Oscar Serlin's production of the play based upon Clarence Day's entertaining book removes any slight suffered by the Hub in taking third place. Life With Father has but a whisper of a plot, but it is a roar of entertainment from breakfast table to breakfast table...
...play like Messrs. Lindsay and Crouse's adaptation which does not pretend to dramatic intensity or profundity, the burden of success necessarily lies upon the direction and a cast able to take full advantage of the innumerable laugh-provoking situations. Oscar Serlin provides both. Bretaigne Windust has captained the cast to a rollicking march that rarely tires. He commands a company that is cut to the most exacting measures...
...normal Nazi, Rudolf Hess, called "Fraulein" because he is hysterical Hitler's nursemaid and governess. There was the ex-wine salesman, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who used to be much in demand for amateur theatricals in the homes of rich and cultured Jews, because he played effete Englishmen in Oscar Wilde plays. There was Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, about whom the Munich police in 1923 made a mistake his secret police would never make. They thought he was so unimportant they did not arrest him. There was Hitler's brutal Labor Boss Robert Ley. Bayles describes his first meeting...