Word: screen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, patriots put up two monuments to General George S. Patton, and movie-goers elected Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peclc as the best foreign screen performers...
...prolific fiction-writer himself, was moved upstairs last week to a job as "associate publisher." As his successor, Redbook hired a postgraduate of what is known in the trade as the "bust and thigh" school. The new editor: boyish, curly-haired Wade H. Nichols, 34, who has made Modern Screen the fastest-selling movie magazine on the newsstands...
...only the military's requests for a radar screen and a guided missile range have passed both Houses of Congress...
...movie struck, and its residents imitate and envy the stars of the screen- though members of "downtown" society and the rich of Pasadena enjoy bristling at them and Los Angeles society pages go out of their way to avoid printing a motion-picture person's name. It is a city full of people from somewhere else and it still has little sense of tradition or of unity...
...film loses ground by its episodic, rigidly chronological story treatment, but the loss is more than regained in a powerful climax and several excellent performances. As Dr. Carter, Mel Ferrer gives a sensitive interpretation of a decent man caught in an indecent dilemma. Richard Hylton, in his first screen appearance, plays the difficult role of Carter's son with ease and assurance. Outstanding bit-player is the Rev. Robert Dunn, real-life rector of Portsmouth's St. John's Episcopal Church. His screenplay sermon on tolerance is a little masterpiece of low-keyed natural eloquence...