Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing himself when he presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint: "I'm sure the President won't need any coaching, but if he does, you can bet that I'll give...
...moviegoers got a clap on the back from Jack L Warner of Hollywood's Warner Brothers. His considered estimate of the fans: "the most adult-minded audiences in motion picture history." Responsible for this grown-upness: "early mental maturing . . . via the newspapers and radio, as well as the screen...
...white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
...essentially personal story. Although the acting is unusually sincere, Vincent Price is too florid even for his florid role; Henry Fonda often counts too much on a sort of adenoidal pathos; Ann Dvorak is not very convincing as the other woman; and only Barbara Bel Geddes, making her screen debut, is really satisfactory...
Married. Herman Shumlin, 48, bald, bespectacled, parlor-pink Broadway producer (Watch on the Rhine, The Male Animal); and Carmen England, 33, onetime screen bit player; he for the second time, she for the third; in Santa Monica...