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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outfit, Woody would stride into Chasen's restaurant and climb aboard a stool in full regimental regalia. Hollywood said good-by to Woody at a formal dinner for 500 on an M. G. M. sound stage climaxed by a hectic scuffle for the check by the studio, the Screen Directors Guild, Producer Edward Mannix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Happenings | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Veteran Starlet Betty Grable, of the sensational legs and looks (last year displayed in Du Barry Was a Lady, since then on the screen), cooed in Manhattan: "I think kindness is the most important thing in a person. Gee, when anybody does anything nice for me I just about fall flat on my face. Every time I even smile at a man any more the papers have me practically married to him. Outsiders don't understand about things. If I ever get married again, and I probably will, some time, I'll marry an actor, at least that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Jervis Bay closed in, laying a smoke screen as she went, behind which the rest of the convoy scattered into the gathering dusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Epic of the Jervis Bay | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

First to run off this evening will be "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," one of the earliest examples of screen comedy. It was directed in 1906 by Edwin S. Porter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comedy Marks Start Of Film Society Show | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

...wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

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