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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A Squeak Like Mother's." The role of Fuffy, Judy's disconcerting chum, is also a neat bit of typecasting. She is Beverly Wills, 14, the strident, skinny daughter of strident, skinny Comedienne Joan Davis. Agent Polan vetoed more than 70 candidates before Beverly appeared, but Beverly was...
Nonetheless Cripps knew that, in the long run, recovery and the Labor Party's fate depended as much on British workers' willingness to hold the wage line as it did on any other measures in his budget. Said he: ". . . We must remember that the economic plan is not...
I Remember Mama. Domestic comedy and pathos, richly presented by George Stevens; with Irene Dunne, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Bel Geddes (TIME, April 5).
Because this story of an immigrant Swedish family in San Francisco has appeared in magazine, book, and play form, most people remember Mama well. But any initial familiarity shouldn't prevent a look at the screen version, for this West Coast cupboard saga profits from retelling. Remaining within the casual...
The individual vignettes of "Mama", spiced by imaginative camera angles and a constant shifting of perspective, are uniformly well-done. Irene Dunne is forced to concentrate on her Swedish enunciation--consequently, her tongue comes out of her cheek and her performance approaches the masterful. The aunts are also well-played...