Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Epitaph. In Bogota, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo, deploring the Texas City disaster, editorialized: "Texas, an important city of the U.S., was completely destroyed by a fearful fire. Nothing remains of Texas, the cradle of all the cowboys of the screen...
Alec's first screen role - Herbert Pocket in Dickens' Great Expectations - decided him that here was the life. He promptly hired an agent to rustle him up some more movie jobs, preferably "a Hollywood picture for the good it does one - not financial especially, but for one's reputation." His agent's impression: "There's no bloody nonsense about Alec...
...Screen Guild Players (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, with Loretta Young and Herbert Marshall...
...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...
...month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks he might have another go at them...