Word: screened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question used to be: Can Shakespeare's plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all. But Henry raised another question that it could not answer: Can the screen cope with Shakespeare at his best? Olivier undertook to answer that one, too. One evening next week, at simultaneous previews in Manhattan and Hollywood,* the first U.S. audiences will see the result...
Then he made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, squarecut Scandinavian face was etched handsomely on the screen; he was relaxed, direct and confident. He answered ably and fully every question two newsmen could throw...
Audiences howl at such simplehearted reminders of the days when screen comedy was really crude and sometimes brilliant. If anyone could give them back the genuine thing, he might soon be the richest man in Hollywood...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...