Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these Germans were taken in the rear by Army troops which had landed from light craft, backed up by the guns of Navy ships. The parachutists joined the troops on the beach, embarked under a shield of Navy shellfire, and the whole force moved triumphantly off under a screen of fighter planes. German fighters buzzed up in angry pursuit, but they bounced, for the most part, off the British umbrella...
...Jeane knows her way around with athletes. While still in Los Angeles High School she covered baseball, hockey, football for the Hollywood Citizen-News. She drew the program cover for the 1939 Rose Bowl game, once pressagented a Stanford football player whom she misjudged to be a sure screen bet. In August 1940, driving 600 miles a day, Jeane went to Philadelphia for a cartoonist's job on the Bulletin. A flop on the feature page (she hated to draw women's styles especially), she got along fine as sports cartoonist, soon added a column of writing...
...Citizen Kane, was conspicuously overlooked by Hollywood in its annual kudos-giving.* Upstart Welles, though he and his first picture had been nominated by the members for nine Academy Awards (far more than any other star or picture), was awarded half an Oscar (for the best original screen play; co-authored by Herman J. Mankiewicz...
...Woman of the Year," first celluloid of Katherine Hepburn's since she swept stage and screen audiences off their feet with "Philadelphia Story," is something, though not too much, of a disappointment...
...main points of wonderment in "Two-Faced Woman" are how the director can keep the old mistaken identity theme from falling apart on the screen and how Garbo can do the same for her person after lo, these many years. Unfortunately, their attempts are not successful enough to make this much-publicized comedy so diverting as its original version...