Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With just enough changes to avoid libel suits, "Citizen Kane" is the story of William Randolph Hearst. As a skeleton for his plot, Welles uses the interviews of a reporter for a Luce-like organization, who is trying to find out the meaning of the great man's last word. Thinking that this word, "rosebud," might be the key to the whole life of Charles Foster Kane, the reporter speaks to Kane's second wife, his business manager, and his best friend. Thus the story unfolds in snatches and flashbacks, often going over the same scenes twice, but from different...
...Awkward, Embarrassing." The "London Plot," as the Evening Standard called it, was denounced by many as shady chicanery. Said a London scrubwoman: "I'd never 'ave thought it of 'em." Said Liberal County Councilor Harris: "A scandal. . . deliberately defeating the will of London...
...stuffing. Hammerstein & Logan have contrived a shrewd mixture of tear-jerking and rib-tickling, of sugar & spice and everything twice. Their musical play is far superior to the usual libretto nonsense; it is quite the equal, in fact, of the usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights. For others, a musical play will have to rank a bit higher as drama than South Pacific, if the loss...
...most consistent good support came from the female players. Gail Winslow as Maggie Cutler and Pola Chasman as Lorraine Sheldon were the most able, a happy chance considering the amount of plot and dialogue that depends on them. Barbara Nathan as an adoring, breathless, and retired Lizzy Borden, makes more of her short part than anyone else in the east. She is genteel and delicately loony with the greatest charm...
Hollywood has given The Fan some handsome costumes and sets, retained a few of Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...