Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less pinching was his free-lance career for picture magazines, chiefly LIFE. Gaudiest assignment: color portraits of Hollywood stars. Preferred work: graphic reports in black & white on social subjects such as Pennsylvania miners. He is so photogenic himself that Ginger Rogers once suggested that he be screen-tested...
...picture then fades into a chronology of Blimp's life, shows with such gentle sympathy how he grew fat muddling for Britain that Blimp emerges as a likable human being. Few in the audience could hate the Colonel Blimp on the screen. Wrote Blimp-despising Columnist A. J. Cummings in the liberal News Chronicle: "For my part I fell in love with Blimp-a witty and quite sensible soldier, who would lose a war with dignity and might win it with a little luck...
Presumed Dead. Leslie Howard (néStainer), 50, genteel stage & screen favorite; in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane downed by the Nazis...
There is much fine Technicolor and court pouf-pouf. But pretty Lucille Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian Zero Mostel in his screen debut seems to need an intimate audience; Tommy Dorsey's band needs fewer powdered wigs and more good tunes to play. A characteristic flight of wit is a non-Porter song which runs: "No matter how you slice it, it's still Salome...
...practice of Fascism. The picture works under several handicaps: 1) the broad contents of its story are wearily familiar to many; 2) the territory which must be covered is vast and intricate; 3) the teaching method-that of the illustrated lecture-means that the enormous power possible in screen images is dominated and reduced by words. But against these obstacles, Prelude to War does nearly always a better-than-average job, occasionally a brilliant...