Word: ren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LITTLE COQUETTE-Renée de Fontarce McCormick-Houghton Mifflin...
...René Chaloult, a French Canadian bigot who never thought that Canada should enter the war, seriously proposed last week that she should quit...
From that great tradition, from the deep underground of France's past, came one stirring call in the Assembly's debate. René Ferrière, chairman of the Assembly's press committee, proposed that the base of a new press regime be built upon France's underground publications: "the first sincere press in France in many years...
Featured in last week's Jacobowsky and the Colonel was Hollywood's pretty Annabella, wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power. The French cinemactress-who rose to fame in Director René Clair's Le Million -was making her Broadway debut. Critic Rascoe charged from the show to his typewriter, abruptly started off: "An incredibly talentless actress who calls herself Annabella made me so spiritually ill last night that you can stop, right now, if you want to. . . . In my whole life (I give you my word) I have never seen or heard an actress botch up good lines...
Meanwhile Sturges has two pictures waiting in the can. One is called Hail the Conquering Hero. The other, Great Without Glory, is an adaptation of René Fülöp-Miller's Triumph Over Pain, which was the story of anesthesia. It is still the story of anesthesia-but it is also a Sturges farce. It remains to be seen what Sturges might do with really major material, such a Seven Against Thebes, or the Oberammergau Players...