Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very Good Eddy. Eddy's hair was already greying when he put on a Los Angeles concert in 1933. The audience demanded 18 encores, and among the enthusiasts was M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer. Three Hollywood studios offered Eddy screen tests. M.G.M. won him, tinted his hair, and put him into Naughty Marietta in 1935, with Jeanette MacDonald. At the picture's preview, Director W. S. Van Dyke turned from the raving audience to Eddy and asked: "Well, how does it feel to be a great actor?" "But I'm not an actor," Eddy protested...
...screen story of To Have and Have Not is still about a couple of low characters named Harry Morgan and Marie, and Harry is still a rugged individualist who takes rich men out fishing and earns side money in whatever nefarious ways turn up. But Harry's beat is no longer the axis between bourgeois. Key West and revolutionary Havana; he now works out of wartime Martinique, and the villains are Vichyites. Marie is no longer an idealized image of happy marriage; she is a tall, hoarse, egregious, 22-year-old tramp, so worldly-wise that when a policeman...
Talents and Tailoring. Lauren Bacall has cinema personality to burn, and she burns both ends against an unusually little middle. Her personality is compounded partly of percolated Davis, Garbo, West, Dietrich, Harlow and Glenda Farrell, but more than enough of it is completely new to the screen. She has a javelinlike vitality, a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce female shrewdness and a special sweet-sourness. With these faculties, plus a stone-crushing self-confidence and a trombone voice, she manages to get across the toughest girl a piously regenerate Hollywood has dreamed of in a long...
...wired the magazine, asking whether she was available. The answer came fast, on the Hawks's doorstep, in person. In May 1943 Miss Bacall signed a contract with Hawks; this was shared by Jack Warner as soon as he saw her screen test, a bit of Claudia. The test alone is proof of her abilities; for Lauren Bacall (as I seen in To Have and Have Not) to make even a mediocre stab at such a role is like Tom Dewey's successfully impersonating Lincoln...
David O. Selznick has taken the simple story of the Home front and packed it with enough expert talent in acting and directing to produce one of the war's more eloquent screen productions. It's a tear-jerker from beginning to end, and even the toughest hombres will flick a salt-saturated drop from their grizzled exam beards...