Word: signee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The House on 92nd Street (Lloyd Nolan, William Eythe, Signe Hasso; TIME, Oct. 8).
How J. Edgar Hoover's G-men saved the day is the tense story of The House on 92nd Street. The desperate goings-on centering around an inconspicuous Manhattan brownstone building (run by talented Swedish Actress Signe Hasso) escape the routine of cloak-&-dagger melodrama by their realism.
There are others: the rich architect (George Macready) whose wife shames him into courage; the hotel barmaid (Signe Hasso) with whom Heisler spends his last night in Germany; the old delicatessen man (Felix Bressart) who finally brings him into contact with the underground. By the time George Heisler leaves Germany...
Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder.
Dr. Wassell is a big, bright, brassy, specious show in which Gary Cooper (as Dr. Wassell) goes through some highly Technicolored, highly ordinary motions, and every nurse in the picture (Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Carol Thurston) is a shinier pippin than the one before. Typical characterization: Dr. Cooper imitating the...