Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bride Came C. O. D. (Warner) is a hot-weather hors d'oeuvre. It offers the curious spectacle of the screen's most talented tough guy (James Cagney) roughhousing one of the screen's best dramatic actresses (Bette Davis) through ten reels of slapsticky summertime comedy. The result, seldom hilarious, is often funny...
...clear that Author Helen MacInnes has studied the slick screen thrillers of her compatriot Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, etc.). Her first novel makes fast reading. Speeded up to her master's pace, it would make still better screening...
...screen is six stories high. Sound wells up throughout the Drive-in's 20 acres from 580 grilled manholes...
Dorothy Lamour offered to write to any draftee whose number is 8962. ∽∽ Paramount urged a screen test on Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered...
Offering the services of a combined filling station and roadside hot-dog stand, Chicago's new 1,500-car Drive-In is a gaudy affair. There are white-uniformed attendants to wash dirty windshields for a better view of the screen, and to check patrons' cars for oil, gas, water, air. There are also comely females in white satin slacks to peddle food, beverages, programs...