Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeleine Carroll, who gave up Hollywood glamor in 1942-at the same time that her husband, ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, joined the Marines-and has served overseas with a Red Cross nursing unit, decided to quit the screen for keeps. She explained that she would continue with the Red Cross until after the war, then planned to care for the 200 homeless children she has sheltered at her home outside Paris. British-born, beauteous Madeleine vowed that it "is to them and them alone that I will devote myself," added that she had always been "at heart more French than...
Married. Rouben Mamoulian, 47, lean, owl-eyed stage & screen director (Oklahoma!, Queen Christina); and Azadia Newman, 33, comely, lynx-eyed socialite portraitist, cousin of the Duchess of Windsor; he for the first time, she for the third; in Peekskill...
...Picture of Dorian Gray (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most literary classics and near-classics translate rather stodgily to the screen, no matter how faithful the adaptation. Oscar Wilde's famed and fancy morality legend is an exception. Its epigrams speak even more sharply than they read, and its dramatic essence is vividly visual. But though Writer-Director Albert Lewin, who also did The Moon and Sixpence (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942) deserves respect for a notably hard try, and though his Picture has some elegance, interest and excitement, it falls far short of what it should have been...
Tallyho. He took over a string of movie magazines which had run up big printing bills (Screenland, Silver Screen), watched them move into the black; he set up Consolidated Book Publishers to print cheap Bibles and encyclopedias, branched out into country banking, bought up Chicago real estate. When Liberty magazine was floundering, he took it over from Macfadden, added it to his string...
...Approval is "a daring modern comedy" written by Frederick Lonsdale in 1927 and set "in grandmother's day." It has been adapted for the screen by Actor Clive Brook, who also produced it, directed it (beautifully), and plays the male lead in it (still better). The lighting is deliberately archaic; the sets and props are an elegant combination of the suffocatingly ratty and the nostalgically exact...