Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone in the suburb, O'Hara and Young make up like sensible folk, and things are generally looking up, with Miss O'Hara expecting a fourth little boy. Three's a plenty, in spite of that coy look she gives us just before the Coming Attraction flashes on the screen...
Television's growing pains were not confined to networks and sponsors. Every week, telescreens seemed to get bigger. Bartenders were still the biggest big-screen buyers. In television territory (see BUSINESS), all well-equipped city bars had telesets. Bob Considine reported: "Television sets have become as obligatory to the bar & grill business as an ivory stick [for] beer suds." And bars that advertised "big screen" drew the customers. One of the biggest king-sized screens, Tradio's 18 by 22 ft. model (see cut), also had a king-sized price...
Customers, shelling out on the prospect that programs would improve before the novelty wore off, were going heaviest for table sets with 10-in. screens (most popular models: a $339.50 Philco, a $375 RCA). But the smaller 7-in. screen models, such as the $179.95 Motorola, the cheapest set, were right behind...
...Morgan (Jeanette MacDonald, back on the screen after six years' absence) is a divorcee who sings and falls in love with Jose Iturbi (played, with superb assurance, by Jose Iturbi). Jeanette's three little girls (Jane Powell, Ann E. Todd, Mary Eleanor Donohue), who still idealize their father, oppose the marriage. Everybody is fairly stupid about trying to resolve the trouble, but everybody means awfully well. Also, everybody bursts into song or sits down at the piano with little or no provocation...
...Girl lisa (Warner). Sam (Joan of Lorraine) Wanamaker's screen debut, with Lilli Palmer as his girl. They are Hungarian immigrants in New York in the era of Teddy Roosevelt (who also gets into the act). Some nice work by the leads, but most of this comedy drama is neither comical nor dramatic...