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...moviegoer's mind, Dick Powell stands for an intolerable mug, Ellen Drew for nothing at all, and Preston Sturges for that competent one man outfit that gave us "The Great McGinty" at minimum cost. In "Christmas in July," Powell is surprisingly un provocative, Drew remains nothing, and Sturges contributes as usual the sprightly story and snappy direction that make up most of the show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...film's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, who was turning out its jerky ancestors in 1913. Veteran cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

William A. Atchley '43, Englewood; Thorwill Brehmer '42, Montclair; Donald A. Brew '41, East Orange; Robert S. Frankel '43, East Orange; Henry F. Haviland, Jr. '41, East Orange; Preston T. Roberts, Jr. '43, Moorestown; and John J. Sopka '42, Elizabeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 61 Upperclassmen Have Scholarships From Corporation | 10/31/1940 | See Source »

...student in the University, with preference going first to students from Dorchester. The recipients this year are: Stanley Brooks '44, of Milton; and Joel Cohen '43, Robert E. Desautels '44, Philip Feldman '43, Sanford J. Freedman '43, Daniel Gorenstein '44, Melvin Pollard '41, Norman M. Wallack '42, and Preston W. Smith, Jr. '43, of Dorchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Stoughton Scholarships Awarded to Undergraduates | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

Christmas in July (Paramount), previously titled Cup of Coffee and Ants in Their Pants, is the cinema success about poor people in Manhattan which, after so many recent tries, the law of averages made inevitable. Written and directed by Hollywood's latest Fair-Haired Boy-kinetic Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty)-produced for a paltry $325,000, it once again gives the lie to the arbitrary Hollywood assumption that a film's quality is in direct proportion to its cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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