Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bette Davis returns from a screen absence of several months to deliver a remarkable performance as Fanny Trellis, the toast of New York. Fanny has the gay blades of the city at her foot, but her erratic brother, Trimpey, becomes involved in a $25,000 swindle and Fanny has to marry the swindled, Joseph Skeffington, bachelor president of the New York Stock Exchange, to save face for the family...
Petty Cash. It must have been with truly heroic restraint that Mr. Zanuck kept Miss Grable out of Wilson itself: he has put in just about everything else in reach. Messrs. Zanuck, Lamar Trotti (who wrote the screen play), Henry King (who directed it) and their vast corps of experts stopped short of resinking the Lusitania, refighting World War I and rebuilding postwar Paris. But they did produce replicas of the White House and the U.S. House chamber whose accuracy will bring gasps of admiration from Washingtonians...
...first times since El Alamein, Monty had his tanks out ahead of the infantry. The attack rolled forward irresistibly-for five miles. Then it stalled in front of a murderous screen of German 88-mm. guns, mortars, cleverly emplaced tanks firing like mobile pillboxes. The tanks could not plow into the wall of fire that faced them; they had to be drawn back without achieving a major clash with German armor. Correspondents applauded Monty's economy of casualties...
Hoots for Tantrums. Among war films only the Army's Why We Fight series and Screen Magazine are generally liked. But Destination, Tokyo has earned a certain respect, and A Guy Named Joe is well thought of in India. In Iceland, Hollywood's self-congratulatory Four Jills in a Jeep (TIME, April 3) ended abruptly when a crowd of G.l.s walked out on it. In Alaska, where Olivia De Havilland is normally very popular with G.l.s, they fiercely hooted her flag-waving tantrums at the end of Government Girl. Everywhere, G.l.s scan war films for technical errors...
...home the wrong kind of idea about what we are up against." In the South Pacific, as one cinema hero mowed down the enemy like Superman at harvest home, G.l.s sprang to their feet yelling: "Wait a minute buddy, I'll help yah!" Then they shot up the screen...