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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenchman's Creek (Paramount) is a minor masterpiece of mush. A color-drenched $4,000,000 cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller laid in 17th-Century England (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), it offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed...
...picture's chief fault is that the Hollywooden heads, in attempting to produce a "best-seller," have turned a simple, true story into a lurid piece of sensationalism. Instead of the inspiring epic recited by President Roosevelt in his famous 1942 radio address, one sees a movie distinguished by its attempts to turn Dr. Wassell into a Lou Gehrig or a Sergeant York...
...novels on the New York Times's best-seller list, only two had a war setting; of the 16 nonfiction titles, only four concerned the war. The top song hit was a bouncy novelty for children, Swingin' on a Star; the three runners-up were sentimental lyrics, of which two (I'll Be Seeing You and I'll Get By) were years old. Manhattan, the very citadel of the new, reinforced the trend to the old and romantic: one night 21,000 people, the biggest crowd in two years, crammed Lewisohn Stadium to hear Oscar Levant...
Sergeant Marion Hargrove, 24-year-old best-seller (See Here, Private Hargrove), the youngest addition...
Racket at Home. Many prisoners agreed that "politics were a dirty racket and all politicians hypocrites. . . . Many prisoners are passionately curious about postwar planning and a copy of the Beveridge Report was a best-seller in the Camp...