Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Wood then aimed a kick at the rear end of the Motion Picture Writers' Guild, saying that it was "controlled by Communists." As for the Screen Directors' Guild, of which he is a member, Wood said that it had a strong pro-Communist bloc, composed of Directors John Cromwell, Frank Tuttle, Edward Dmytryk and Irving Pichel...
Died. John Halliday, 67, suave, well-tailored fixture of stage & screen drawing rooms for some 27 years (The Circle, The Spider, Jealousy, Tovarich); of a heart ailment; in Honolulu...
Outplayed in the first half, the Mastodons turned the tide completely in the third and fourth quarters, using their tremendous reserve strength to defeat the fast-tiring Bunnies. Two large penalties, a screen pass, and an end sweep by antelope-legs Tener Eckleberry provided the margin of victory, with John Quisenberry coming on to boot the conversion...
...there is the music of Schumann, Brahmns, and Liszt as a backbone to hold up the pulp surrounding it. At certain points, "Song of Love" reveals immense potentialities for the development of screen musical biographics in terms of a blind audience. This is a step forward. Forgetting the Kern and Porter films, one may look with encouragement at the progress made from the lives of chopin, Schubert, and Gershwin to that of Schumann. Auditory progress, to be sure, but still progress...
Body and Soul is no major screen achievement, but it expertly holds a steady pitch of interest and excitement...