Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rourings represent art of a very high order. A great wind-sawer at rehearsals, Director Oboler has worked with such lights as Nazimova, Bette Davis, considers himself a sort of Radio Reinhardt. Betimes he has ghostwritten a biography of the late Tex Rickard, recently adapted Escape for the screen, is now under commitment to write the screen play for The Flying Yorkshireman. When he discusses radio, he is fond of such pronunciamentos as: "The very first premise for writing good radio should be actually having something to say that hasn't been said before quite in the manner...
Nice Girl? resembles a shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household...
...transition to tragedy and parlor problems burdens the film with more labored histrionics than an oldtime melodrama. As the second U. S. screen appearance of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (Intermezzo) and the first for Warner Baxter in more than a year, it gives neither a chance to show more than their frowns...
...legs or any other stock Hollywood commodity. He is the one man out there who can write, direct, and show his charges how to act out a movie. His latest and best personal triumph is "The Lady Eve," as insinuating a farce as has ever decked a Boston screen...
...faint suspicion we might not get the money back. He didn't know much about Chinese culture except for the few "Confucius Say's" that went around the country a couple of years ago. Every now and then they flashed some picture of Peiping being bombed on the screen at the U.T. but he always felt that he had seen the pictures somewhere before. But for that matter other places were being bombed, too, so that didn't give him much to go by. Of course he knew that Terry was having a mild sort of love affair with...