Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hailed as the successor to "Claudia," "The Enchanted Cottage" maintains that rare quality of its predecessor, the retention of stage devices on the screen. Progressing from "Claudia," it gives the camera a freer rein and escapes the charge of not taking advantage of its medium. Still, there are no airplane duels or automobile chases in "The Enchanted Cottage": the tranquility and reliance on suggestion that characterize the theatre also characterize this movie...
...Most of the color and costuming is garishly pretty; the dialogue is richly flavored with such tongue-in-cheek lines as one man's description of the heroine: "She was always a great artist-but above all-a woman." Miss de Carlo, a newcomer to the screen, is not exactly persuasive as the great artist, but as a woman, especially in her Salome number, she brings the house down...
This sort of storytelling, related to balladry but a lot less long-winded, is not new to the screen. But it has been neglected so long that it is as good as new. Combined with evocative sets and appropriate performance (by Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys and others), and admirably terse, it provides a tinnily entertaining, cinematically energetic antidote to the two-hour doses of pure unflavored gelatin now alarmingly on the increase. Significantly, it was made quickly on very little money, as pictures go, and for a humble but reliable audience-the general equivalent of the audience which...
...Anna Lucasta is more in demand in Hollywood than any play since Life with Father. He has been offered as high as $1,000,000 for the screen rights. Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo have all tried to persuade their bosses to buy it for them. (In the play, as first written, Anna and her family were Polish.) Among the top bidders are David Selznick and Mervyn LeRoy. Yet Yordan refuses to sell Anna Lucasta at any price unless he is allowed to co-produce the picture...
...demand as a $2,500-a-week screen writer, but is strictly undazzled; he walked out on a polishing job (Mil dred Pierce) at that pay as soon as he learned that Jack Warner requires his writers to show up at 9 : 30 and leave...