Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulging at the seams in an effulgent abundance of talent. Ira Gershwin's witty lyrics match the temper of Weill's music well, and Maurice Abravahel gets racing vitality from the orchestra. Catherine Littlefield has met the choreography assignment with dancing that whips merrily along at a tingling clip. Raoul Pene DuBois prepared dazzling costumes, Jo Mielziner splendiferous settings, and to top it all off, the staging was handled by John Murray Anderson. In an array of leading names such as this, one is justified in expecting something highly professional...
...script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
...does, there will be two good reasons: 1) Paramount, under the supervision of Designer Raoul Pene du Bois, has turned Miss du Maurier's novel into one of the most eye-drugging jobs of costuming and color on record; 2) the story disguises an essentially drab little suburban flirtation as high romance, retaining the most sure-fire features of both...
...Raoul Dufy, violently anti-Nazi, retired during the occupation to the Alpes Orientales, was working occasionally but was plagued by arthritis...
...Named for the LaFayette Escadrille's Raoul Lufbery, French-born Wallingforder killed in combat...