Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jean Renoir, the noted French director, left Hollywood recently to begin work in the reconstructed studios of Paris, he remarked that in America, "they go to the theatre to see people, not ideas." "Mr. Emmanuel," an expert British film of German atrocity, pays primary attention to people but gives ideas more than the passing nod that one generally finds in the art-starved cinema of the United States...
...Ardent, assiduous Douglas Naylor of Pittsburgh's Press chose Marsha, a head of a saucer-eyed Negro child rendered in a distantly Renoir manner by Ohio-born Clarence Carter...
...Want to Go Back." In Hollywood, meanwhile, the great master of the prewar French cinema, Rene Clair, summed things up for himself and his fellow expatriates, Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier: "I want to go back. You can make films you can't make here. People in America go to the theater to see people, not ideas...
...difficult man. He called his little ballet dancer models "rats," hit the ceiling every time he saw cut flowers, threatened mayhem if his dinner was late. He was especially touchy about his sculpture, which he fashioned over home made armatures, shaped and reshaped with a perfectionist's dissatisfaction. Renoir called him "a sculptor equal to the ancients...
...annual joke on themselves and all other writers of smooth, smart department-store Christmas advertising. Macy's bought a six-column ad in the New York Times for a cartoon of a befuddled, determined male saying to a glamorous second-floor dummy: "I'm looking for the Renoir peignoir with the fabulous moonbeam bow." Underneath, Macy's printed "The Man's Glossary (revised 1944 edition) of Unfamiliar Words & Phrases-As Used by Advertising Writers to Describe Female Apparel and Appurtenances." Sample definitions...