Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zazu Pitts, long hoped retired or committed, returns to the screen with a plop as the comedy relief, which is neither comic nor relieving. It rather adds to the strain. In short, there is little more universally entertaining that a western, especially in technicolor, even when written to a formula. But if action becomes drudgery, if lines are sighed instead of spat, and if actors look like hod-carriers hurrying to get a union-day's work done, the series of scenes moves like a man blind with amnesia. LAURENCE D. SAVADOVE
...David Shapiro of Manhattan, the bright Italian sun seemed on fire; he was painting his skies a burning yellow. Sculptor Robert Becker of Far Rockaway, N.Y. was working in black screen, exhibited an abstraction that looked rather like a woman's fancy hat. Others had turned to Italy's fawn-colored countryside, painting delicately tinted landscapes and soft, expressionistic pictures of peasants and village priests. A favorite of the show: New Mexican Edward Chavez's flowing study of three white nuns' bonnets set against an abstract Florentine background...
Died. John Garfield, 39, tough-guy actor of stage (Golden Boy, Awake and Sing) and screen (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Body and Soul); of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see CINEMA...
Hollywood noticed Jules in 1938, changed his name to John Garfield, and launched him on a type-cast screen career of playing himself-the narrow-eyed, rock-hard underdog. In his first movie, one of his lines came easily: "It stinks." He put a jarring realism into his tough-guy roles -in such movies as They Made Me a Criminal, He Ran All the Way, Tortilla Flat. The critics cheered him, and Hollywood's pinkos took him in tow. Soon, Garfield was lending his name to all sorts of Communist-front crusades...
About Face (Warner) adds lustrous Technicolor and several lackluster songs & dances to the old stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become a mother; Cadet Dick Wesson does not know that Betty Short (Virginia Gibson) is really Betty Long, daughter of the new commandant; Cadet Gordon MacRae sings such songs as Spring Has Sprung, and spikes an unpleasant chemistry instructor's hair tonic with green and blue dyes...