Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studied Hollywood picture-making techniques, talked with directors, screen writers, producers, cameramen...
Born. To Wendy Hiller, 31, British stage & screen star (Love on the Dole, Pygmalion); and British Playwright Ronald Gow, 46, who co-authored Love on the Dole: a second daughter, third child; in London...
...succession of Broadway hits (The College Widow, The Sultan of Sulu), and from his famed Fables in Slang. In the Fables, wit-coated little tales told in capital letters, an American generation found a peculiar charm, for George Ade reworked the goody-goody stories of his time through a screen of Big City sophistication, making them gay but not risqu...
...nature of U.S. character, however sugared and caricatured. Mickey Rooney's imitation of a boy's good & bad manners aboard a train is a bit of universal human comedy which Rooney's broad-axed clowning recklessly highlights. The Andy Hardy pictures are practically the only contemporary screen scratchings into the Comstock lode of U.S. genre comedy. Bad as they are, they are the nearest screen equivalent to Charles Dickens...
...playing love scenes Ingrid Bergman has no contemporary equal. She appears not only to know the emotion and how to make it come to life on the screen, but also to realize, as no other screen actress does, that love is made up of kinds of candor, force and delicateness against which, so far, the Hays Office has contrived no adequate nets. There is a breathtaking honeymoon moment, expressed simply in Cinemactress Bergman's sure, elated walk from her bedside to her husband, which for plenitude and beauty has not been approached since Garbo's great days...