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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...each building there will be a vestibule arrangement to allow doctors and nurses to enter and leave without light escaping. Windows will consist of three parts: heavy-duty plate glass reenforced with wire mesh, screen, and blackout shutter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CABLE FROM LONDON REPORTS ARRIVAL OF HOSPITAL HEADS | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Burgess Meredith as Mr. Astaire's collegiate rival in trumpet playing and Goddard-wooing reveals a new fact of his screen personality. The star of Winterset may object to playing trivial comic roles, but to his credit he does it well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...finishing touches on surrounded Axis "remnants," which for a time seemed permanently on the verge of final destruction. They are also reminiscent of the old cowboy flickers which showed the rescue party speeding around the same bend in the road each time they were flashed on the screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rout in Slow Motion | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

...hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly in the Bach Toccata and Fugue. To many, the swirls, squirls, blobs, and blotches of color on the screen were boring and meaningless. To me they were an exciting visualitation of exactly what happens in the mind when a Bach fugue is played. I agree...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

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