Word: sawyerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis, Jackie Moran, May Robson; TIME...
...Human Hearts, In Old Chicago, The Buccaneer, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Gold Is Where You Find It, Hollywood Hotel, The Goldwyn Follies, Mad About Music...
...Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis. Jackie Moran, May Robson; TIME...
...high-horsed performances of the grownups (particularly that of May Robson as Aunt Polly), Author Mark Twain might have been well pleased. But more than once he would have harrumphed at the self-consciousness of the child actors. Hollywood usually looks to professional youngsters for parts like Tom Sawyer. But Producer David O. Selznick has no child stars on his own roster, and had no wish to borrow and boost one under contract to someone else. When he put Tom Sawyer on his schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed 25,000 children before...
...relief at last from the difficulties of supporting a family on a WPA salary; to Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance has also the charm of being the least camera-conscious. So far as Tommy was concerned, he never acted at all: "All I did was what I was told...