Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pained by TIME'S flat betrayal of a lovely girl [TIME, April 8]. As author of Paulette Goddard's first screen test and as the fortunate producer of several of her pictures since, I am in a position to assure you that we have never felt it necessary to call in the Blimp Section of the Make-up Department...
...Night in Casablanca (United Artists) restores the Marx Brothers to the screen, which has been deprived of their irreplaceable weirdness for five years. Groucho is the rattily natty new manager of a swank North African hotel in which the Nazis have cached French art treasures. Chico knows all about the rival lines of camels, yellow and checkered, which take tourists around. Harpo is valet to the hyperpunctilious Nazi (Siegfried Ru-mann) who is trying to escape to South America with...
...most ambitious of British cinema's popularity polls, sponsored by the Daily Mail, drew ballots from 547,767 of Britain's 30,000,000 cinemaddicts. Eligible for prizes: anything & anybody British appearing on the screen during the six war years. Prizes were "Silver Stars"-a slim silver figure on a globe, holding aloft a star. Winners & also-rans best known...
Despite the Soviet smoke screen, Byrnes's clear affirmative had vastly improved the U.S. position; the burden of proof in a dozen international trouble spots was shifted to Russia, which would now have to show why a U.S. alliance was not a better security than land grabs. Byrnes, after months of feeble diplomacy, had boldly retrieved U.S. leadership...
...Hollywood production, combining superb acting and photography with fine music, was notable for swift pacing and tense atmosphere--the very characteristics lacking in the "Laura" at the Wilbur. Producer Hunt Stromberg Jr. and author Vera Caspary apparently felt that the theatre presented the opportunity denied by the screen to develop real people complete with libidos, but the play starring Miriam Hopkins, Otto Kruger, and Tom Neal, in no way improves upon the Hollywood version made under the watchful eye of the Hays Office...