Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the screen rights of the Charles Jackson novel were bought by Paramount, many people seriously doubted that this novel of a dipsomaniac, the theme of whose life has been one long dissonance of wasted talent and alcohol, with overtones of homosexuality, could ever be made into a picture...
That it has been made into a picture, and into one of the best with in recent memory, is largely the work of three men; Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, who adapted the novel of the screen, and Ray Milland, who plays the part of the hero, Don Birnam. Wilder, whose handling of "Double Indemnity" began the current wave of violent, tough guy films, also directed "Weekend...
Next week: Dame May Whitty playing the washboard in Spike Jones's orchestra. After a suitable buildup, the famed stage-&-screen dowager with the impeccable enunciation will address the mike in a slightly Yiddish accent: "You were expecting maybe Mrs. Nussbaum...
...most admired by cinemaddicts of both sexes, Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1901, and got his first stage experience as prop boy in an Akron stock company. He had ups & downs on Broadway and in stock. Then, after several years of trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana...
Adventure (M.G.M) brings ex-Major Clark Gable back to the screen and gives him Greer Garson as leading lady. In terms of marquee appeal, this combination generates high voltage. It also happens to generate as bright a piece of cinema comedy as has shown up this season...