Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This showing of the French film "Portrait of a Woman" based on a screen play by Jacques Feyder affords little satisfaction to the low intellect movie-goer. A quick disposal of plot by Mr. Feyder and the four superb characterizations of a woman by the actress Francoise Rosay provide a drama which maintains interest throughout...
...hereby give my entire estate," ran the will of Edgar H. Donne, 70, who lived & died in a one-room shack on a barren Michigan farm, "to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, screen actress, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo...
...President O. W. Fisher explains enthusiastically: "Suppose we have a program about Polish refugees being sent back to Poland. The writer will sit in this room, lighted in a blue-greenish color. The room will be cold. We'll have Polish folks songs playing. On the screen will be a picture of refugees in a boxcar. There'll be an odor of garlic...
...Cities; Universal-International), a rare attempt to use the screen for poetic tragedy, is the story of the last eight hours in the life of an Irish revolutionist named Johnny McQueen (James Mason). Robbing a Belfast factory for party funds, Johnny unwittingly kills a man and is himself gravely wounded. In confusion and terror, his comrades abandon him. By nightfall one of the most extensive man hunts in movie history is in full swing. So is an elaborate screen allegory...
...assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace screen...