Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid $200,000 for the screen rights to Frederic Wakeman's cross, best-selling novel about radio, The Hucksters; Mayer had thought it would be good for Gable. Gable claimed shudderingly that the hero's flagrantly libertine outlook would ruin him forever as a great lover. The book's big sales and a denatured script brought Gable around. Metro decided to create its own star (Metro can create a star overnight as surely as Hormel creates Spam). Why not Deborah Kerr? But the producer, Arthur Hornblow Jr., was still worried. The Hucksters, he pointed out, is budgeted...
David Niven has chosen an admirable vehicle for his return to the American screen after a six-year absence, and he does full well by his opportunities as the flier on borrowed time. Kim Hunter, a newcomer, is equally well cast as the WAC. Her fresh and youthful appearance, unretouched by Max Factor, could serve as an object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven...
Outstand in the film is the fine performance of Raimu, who, as the well-digger, is making his last screen appearance in this production. Raimu lends a fine mixture of broad humor and human dignity to the performance of his role. He is equally effective when pleading with the youth's parents for a righting of the wrong done his daughter or when describing the ample charms of his late wife. This blend of the humorous with the elements of human tragedy is characteristic of this fine film which retains both humor and dignity in its treatment of a human...
This storytelling technique is not exactly a revolutionary development in moviemaking, but it is an unusual, effective and clever stunt, particularly well-suited to an action-crammed thriller. Most of the formidable technical problems were ingeniously solved. In his first job, Director Montgomery (who is president of the Screen Actors Guild and something of a Hollywood intellectual) dared to do something different...
...people who don't know the truth about Santa Claus. On paper, it would hardly suggest to a normal mind that its transformation into movie form could do anything but heighten to the point of nausea its sentimental hokum and turn-of-the-century American idealism. On the screen, however, it becomes as entertaining, as moving, as funny and sad--in short, as fine a picture as ever came out of Hollywood...