Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seeing You (Selznick-United Artists) is Hollywood's first attempt to focus on the predicament of a shell-shocked soldier, trying to find his way back to normal life. Good and moving as it sometimes is, it leaves much to be said which, for the sake of the many neuropsychiatric casualties who are already returning from the war, badly needs saying to American civilians. The picture's crucial weakness: it confronts its fumbling, humiliated, pitiful soldier Zack (Joseph Cotten) with a girl (Ginger Rogers) who, instead of being reasonably average, is also a decidedly special case. Zack...
...picture is very far from being a total loss. Joseph Cotten's muted, excruciating performance is the best single guarantee of that; some moments of deep warmth and sympathy from Miss Rogers are also valuable. And the rest of the cast and David O. Selznick, Producer Dore Schary and Director William Dieterle have done a good many unpretentiously remarkable things...
...appreciation of the power and subtlety of weather that most U.S. moviemakers seem to lack. When Zack invites his new friends to a New Year's Eve party at the Y, the crowd there is precisely as it should be. So are the decorations and so-a typical Selznick touch-is the sailor, off at the side, solemnly working himself into a lather on the parallel bars. (Other Selznick touches: a stuffy senator asking Zack how the boys overseas are thinking politically and getting a quite unpleasant answer; a woman scolding her little boy-his name: Franklin...
There are dozens of such indications that Selznick knows and cares more about getting American life into good moving pictures than any other man with his combined power and talent...
...following Colby charges-top Selznick actresses-are shown clockwise from bottom on the cover: Shirley Temple, Jennifer Jones, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy McGuire...