Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowes' Amateur Hour and went off, defeated, twelve weeks later. She is leery of television: "I did two shows with Milton Berle. On both of them he had horses in the act - and everything that goes with horses. We were so cramped backstage that I had only a screen for costume changes and an electrician practically held a light over me while I changed." She added reflectively: "There must be an easier way to make a living...
...Hoover could say that the day of the gangster was over. His G-men were the new popular heroes, immortalized ever since on the screen and on the air, and on a thousand box tops, bearing the morning cereal to American boys. The pursuers, not the pursued, had become the object of hero worshipers' affections...
After searching high & low these many years, Illustrator George Petty at last found in Screen Star Joan Caulfield (height, 5 ft. 5 in.; weight, 119 lbs.; waist, 25 in.; bust, 35½ in.) the perfect model for his once-famed Petty Girl, promptly set to work sketching her. By an astounding coincidence, Joan was hard at work on a new movie-The Petty Girl...
Honest Opinion. The idea, as Peck puts it, was to give the screen actors a chance to "sharpen up." Says he: "Hollywood is a vacuum in which criticism doesn't exist . . . The only way you can get a really honest opinion of your work is to get in front of an audience that pays to see you. Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine...
...telling the story straight. Its dirty children, dilapidated porches and stuffy hall bedrooms are authentically grimy; its dialogue often catches the nagging overtones of everyday frustration and defeat. But its brightest achievement is the fresh, engaging and often stirring performances of its two young principals, both newcomers to the screen. Sally Forrest, though she often recalls Producer Lupine's own lush style of acting, has range and depth. So has Keefe Brasselle, who looks something like a lankier Montgomery Clift. For a movie produced on a paltry budget ($154,000), Not Wanted is an impressive...