Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than Stanley Kramer's other ventures into celluloid theatre, Member of the Wedding illustrates the difficulty of transferring a play from stage to film. Subservient to words on the stage, visual effects take precedence on the screen. Carson McCullers' story of a motherless adolescent who feels herself an "I person" among "we people" is one of great delicacy, but through the literal eye of the camera, which focuses as intently on an ice-box as on the actors, many of the nuances are lost. And with the camera's greater scope, the restrictions of a single set become very...
...cook, Bernice, is a rich, full personality with the compassion and placid wisdom of experience. These two performers make the film a moving drama. But at the same time, Member of the Wedding shows clearly that for all the versatility of the camera, something is lost when a screen-play is simply a play on the screen...
...prescriptions, Denver now admits-with the pleased air of a patient who is convalescing after a difficult medical treatment-have achieved wonderful results. Barnes's dance allows twelve automobiles to turn at downtown intersections on every green light where only one was able to creep through the screen of pedestrians before. Denver's evening traffic now clears up 20 minutes earlier than in 1947 although the city now has 44% more automobiles. Last year traffic deaths were down to 45, as compared with 64 in the year before Barnes took over...
...only reason for using Technicolor was to exploit Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings, it should not have been used. The paintings flash across the screen for at least five minutes, boring the non-cultured and leaving the art appreciators gasping. Further, I do not think the use of greens and mauves in haggard faces conveys either realism or artistry...
Divorced. By Pamela Brown, 35, auburn-haired British actress of stage (The Lady's Not for Burning) and screen (Tales of Hoffmann): Peter Copley, 37, British character actor; after eleven years of marriage, no children; in London...