Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screen Writers' Guild Los Angeles
...wanted Jimmy Stewart, who couldn't make it), but with much of the ceremony given a Hollywood premiere. The play itself, John McGiver's All Gaul Is Divided, was a comedy about G.I. black market operations in France, and perhaps not worth so much fuss. But stage & screen bigwigs by the dozens and critics by the score came to look things over. Paramount and Pathe newsreelmen took shots. This week NBC will telecast the play, plans to do the same for all seven plays...
Education & Taxes. Edward has spent 40 years on stage & screen filling his bag of silly-boy tricks. After three years at Columbia University, he spent ten in stock companies, "got pretty well-known as a fellow who had nice clothes," even acquired his own troupe but never cut much of a figure on Broadway...
Great Expectations. A fine Dickens story, brought vividly to the screen by Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues (TIME...
...picture has a reasonably grown-up point of view, although it never suggests that Scott's jealousy, and his childish indulgence of it, might be as ignoble as his wife's deceit. But it urges, in fairly blunt terms for the screen, that war wives suffered from celibacy as well as the sugar shortage. There is also a suggestion that forgiveness is desirable and hasty divorces undesirable...