Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening I dropped into the cinema theater. In a dark hall filled with sailors, office workers and the simple man in the street, I saw on the screen the beloved face of Comrade Stalin and my heart beat gladly when handclapping resounded in the hall. I then thought that the average American has all the basis for scorning the dirty reactionary brew of Hearst, McCormick & Co. . . . For this average American is the great American people which . . . wishes to live in peace and friendship with the great people of my country...
...eight conscripts of this British picture are painfully slow in breaking their civilian molds. 'Out of their early sullenness, bewilderment, arrogance and naivete, the producers have wrung convincing reality-and tempered it with genuine irony and humor. In putting it on the screen, a crew of excellent actors have more than exceeded the line of duty...
Arleen Whelan, 28, flame-haired, green-eyed stage & screen starlet and ex-manicurist, got undivided attention from a committee of 65 illustrators, who awarded her a wellrounded, unequivocal title: "the most perfect all-over beauty of all time." Runner-up: the Venus de Milo...
...women and children, draining townward out of their hill caves, clambering bewildered among their demolished homes. or being extracted from under the rubble of a late-exploding mine or trap, war takes on great and complex meanings. And in one long passage, free of comment, while the screen multiplies the Etruscan...
...Nickel's Worth of Jive, dreams of mink coats in the manner of not-quite-a-lady in the dark, misleads and falls in love with young Dr. Dick Haymes, and demonstrates the fact that motherhood's extra pound or so of flesh can improve even the screen's most unimprovable body. Radio's wry, rough Beatrice Kay and bland, smooth Phil Silvers contribute some likable comedy; William Gaxton's performance, as Dr. Haymes's worried father, is a fine, quiet piece of backstage sentimentalism. The big production numbers (hung mainly on the idea...