Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). James Stewart in Call North-side...
Died. Philip Barry, 53, playwright who won fame & fortune from both stage & screen by specializing in smart dialogue among the smart set (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, The Philadelphia, Story); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...
...major Boston theater will screen "A Touch of the Times," Ivy's first production, according to Schiffer. New York's Olio Video Productions is distributing "Touch" for the clubs. As yet no proceeds have come in, but Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles are going to screen the fiilm, he added...
...unsuccessful playwright on Broadway, he joined Warner Brothers as a scripter in 1936, piled up plenty of screen credits (They Won't Forget, Dust Be My Destiny, Edge of Darkness) but not much satisfaction. In 1946 he branched out as a writer-director (Johnny 0'Clock), then tried just directing (Body and Soul). Next, having set up Robert Rossen Productions through a financing-distributing deal with Columbia, he became a producer (The Undercover Man). His latest film is his first crack at writing, producing and directing all at once...