Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screen Star James Cagney, 44, bought an $85,000 waterfront place in Edgartown, Mass., but denied that it was to get his children as far away as possible from "the Hollywood atmosphere...
...Reporters appeared less interested in the experiment than in the televised World Series game. A.P.'s Arthur Edson noted that, technically, reception "was surprisingly good," but complained that he had missed most of an inning because FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock was posing for news pictures in front of the screen. The New York Star's Ernest Barcella was chiefly concerned about what had happened to Warren Spahn: "He was pitching for the Braves when we entered a tunnel. When we picked up the game again Spahn was missing for good. It developed he had been batted from...
...City (20th Century-Fox) is one up on most movies in two ways. The screen play, by Richard Murphy, who wrote Boomerang!, is unusually thoughtful and pointed. And the picture is directed by Robert Siodmak, one of those quaint, old-fashioned craftsmen who still believe that a movie should move and be visually interesting...
Hawks obviously likes and understands men, grand enterprise, hardship, courage and magnificent landscape. The greatest satisfaction of this picture is continuous and unobtrusive. It is the constancy with which all outdoors, and all human endurance of it and effort to conquer it, keeps bulging the screen full of honest and beautiful vitality, like a steady wind against a well-trimmed sail...
...released ahead of it. No one "discovered" Monty Clift jerking sodas or selling shoes. Twenty-eight years old this month, he has spent half his life in the theater ( The Skin of Our Teeth, The Searching Wind, There Shall Be No Night). He is that rare bird with both screen personality and acting talent. Rarer still for a newcomer, he is getting his own way about contracts. He refused to play pretty juveniles or mannikins, and the dread of being "owned" by Hollywood made a seven-year contract no more inviting than the seven-year itch...