Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career started under the cold, sharp eye of the great Max Reinhardt. On the recommendation of a friend of a friend, Reinhardt hired her as understudy to the understudy of Hermia in his 1934 Hollywood Bowl production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. True to the old backstage plot tradition, the first-string Hermia got a movie offer, the second-stringer fell ill, and Olivia took the part. Movie Producer Henry Blanke, who dropped in on one of the rehearsals, noticed her. He thought she would be right for Hermia in the movie version of Dream which...
Bits & Pieces. Vergara's stubborn silence blocked full inquiry into the biggest question of all: Who, if anyone, had inspired and financed him? But from bits & pieces, fitted together, Prosecutor José Nogues bluntly tagged the plot "Made in Argentina." Said he: "The subversive movement . . . was inspired from Argentina and intimately synchronized with similar movements in other Latin American countries...
...plot is of little substance. The principals carry on their highly-conversational love affair as employees of a House Beautiful-type magazine. They go to Indiana to write a feature story on an average American "June wedding," and get mixed up in the romantic affairs of two young couples. Everything ends happily--but not stickily, as the antiseptic tone of half-seriousness which characterizes the performances of Montgomery and Miss Davis is fortunately maintained throughout...
Bette Davis is Montgomery's straight man for the most part, and has to waste a lot of time unraveling the plot (which, although flimsy, is rather intricate). But she is a good straight man, and does a creditable job of sustaining "June Bride" in its dull spots. Although there are a number of these low pressure areas in the film, they aren't very damaging. The Montgomery-Davis combination far out-balances them...
...Stalingrad" is a novel of mood. Instead of a plot, there is only the overpowering atmosphere of snow and gray skies and beaten men--and death. Plievier indulges in lengthy political discourses in the words of his characters and in the third person. His German officers begin, for the first time, to doubt the infallibility of what they have built and operated, and to find in the ruin of the sixth Army and its betrayal by Hitler the first indications that they have devoted their lives to a false cause. It dawns on some of them that...