Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...
...screen she was known as the Mexican spitfire. Her five years of marriage to Swimmer-Actor Johnny Weissmuller were punctuated by endless quarrels and reconciliations, mostly in public. After her divorce she joyously telephoned the columnists the details of many careless new affairs. She was no longer a star, but her private life kept her in the public...
Winged Victory (20th Century-Fox), Moss Hart's crisply flamboyant salute to the Air Forces, comes to the screen substantially unchanged in cast, story and general feeling. Like the original play, it is as immaculately robust as if it had just stepped out of a barracks shower; indeed, it would gain considerably if it did not so often suggest a Boy Scout Jamboree. Like the original, too, it generates among spectators the sort of friendliness normally reserved for amateurs, since all of its male performers are Air Forces men and the profits go to Army charities. But every...
...playing Los Angeles, got them jamming on a Warner sound stage. Result: two numbers (On the Sunny Side of the Street and Jam Session) which, if not the best that hot players can do, are pretty certainly the most honest, down-to-earth popular music yet recorded for the screen...
...operation after dieting away 100 lbs.; in Los Angeles. Because of his size (6 ft. 3 in., 300 lbs.), Cregar had a hard time persuading Hollywood producers that he could really act, let his first picture, Hudsons' Bay, in 1940 speak for him, promptly became one of the screen's most popular portrayers of psychopathic, blood-curdling bad-men (Joan of Paris, The Lodger), had just completed, before his death, a new melodrama. Hangover Square...