Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News's up & coming Station WPIX (to open June 15) solved its cinema problem for a year or so with a shrewd buy. For $130,000 the News picked up 24 of British Cinemogul Sir Alexander Korda's best old films, including such past hits as The Scarlet Pimpernel and Lady Hamilton...
Here Comes Morgan. In May 1947, taciturn, brilliant Stanley Kramer, who had almost made it as a movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said...
...meet this crisis the West must know and measure this shrewd exploitation of Europe's fears. It can never assume that the Ruhr miner or the Normandy peasant, for all his rude wisdom, will shrug off a Moscow overture as just an empty political move. He will never surrender his worn hope for peace simply because political sophisticates of the Western capitals say that Moscow is just up to its old tricks. The sophisticates will have to expose the tricks. If that is done with clarity and integrity, the West need have no fear. Precisely because the miner...
...Société has been more direct. It sent out a cry of distress to shrewd, dapper René de Léon, who headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...
...close-ups of the Führer, gone the Wagnerian surges on the sound track to underline every German victory. Gone is any suggestion that the Germans (even hard-working Leni) had anything to do with the film; the distributors are taking no chances with U.S. public opinion. By shrewd editing, a 260-minute heil to German athletic prowess has been reduced to a 92-minute rah-rah for the All-American...