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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left eye. And she is no great actress; most critics agree that ordinary is the word for Maggie's histrionics. Apparently, that's what makes her popular. Said a British producer: "She is really one of them. They feel that whatever happens to her on the screen might easily happen to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shopgirl's Dream | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Stories such as this, which Hawthorne might have written, are seldom written (or read) in our time; they are even more seldom brought to the screen. Producer-Director Carl Dreyer (who made the famed Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928) has filmed Day of Wrath with more than sufficient sobriety, restraint, insight and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Sons. Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster and Mady Christians in a good screen translation of Arthur Miller's prize play (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...moving parts" of television are two slim beams of electrons that sweep back & forth 15,750 times in each second. One "scans" the optical image of the scene the "pickup tube" is looking at. The other listens carefully, miles away, and paints an almost identical picture on the screen of the receiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How TV Works | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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