Word: screen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castings: William Powell, absent from the screen for almost a year; in Return of the Thin Man, his first job under a new seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...brightly colored playroom that is not as innocent as it looks, the youngsters are exposed to temptation, have their curiosity aroused and are purposely frustrated while an observer watches them through a one-way screen; even moving pictures can be taken of the unsuspecting youngsters through a mirror that is really a window...
...Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose morning diversion is watching excavations, discussing Capital and Labor while they wait...
...cause of this wholesale bonanza is a single star: Gene Autry. Though most cinemaddicts in big cities have never seen him on the screen and never heard of him, Gene Autry is not only by far the most famed performer in modern "westerns" but quite possibly the most popular cinemactor in the world...
...other U. S. population centres. Autry pictures rarely play in major Los Angeles theatres, and Autry is seldom recognized on the rare occasions when he appears in public. Irritated by his obscurity, the cinema's most popular star draws attention to himself by wearing cowboy clothes off screen as well as on, has a special white gabardine cowboy suit for evening wear. He takes off his cowboy suits only for bed or golf, owns no conventional clothes. Gene Autry's real name is Gene Autry. His next picture, due in about a month, will be Western Jamboree...