Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cord Meyer Jr., 27, is a pale young man with a preoccupied smile and wavy brown hair. His paleness and his preoccupation are the marks of war: he was very nearly killed on Guam. He lost an eye and had his face shattered when a Jap grenade exploded in his foxhole.* Since his discharge from the Marines, Cord Meyer has been a young man on a crusade. He is the president of United World Federalists, which seeks to save the world through a limited federation before an atomic war destroys...
...legendary creature like T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"). They imagine him to be tall and slim, with steely blue eyes and commanding voice. Actually his voice is soft, his eyes watery. A World War I wound clipped off a chunk of his jaw, bent his features into a permanent smile. Among the Arabs he is known as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Chin...
...cast had included Margaret O'Brien and the Andrews Sisters, and the photographing had been done in technicolor, the picture could have been billed as an extravaganza. As it is it isn't even colossal, but there are times when it activates a grudging smile, and once or twice even a warm chuckle. Levant's cynicism is two-dimensional: in his role and for his role. This, by all accounts, is a good thing, taking the mind off the pins and needles of a sleeping leg. Dan Dailey carries the burden of the show, and proves his worth...
Stocky "Ben" Ford, an easygoing young man with a ready smile, has his grandfather's blue eyes and some of his restless energy. He also has a will of his own. He was the first of the grandsons (Henry II, Benson and William Clay, 22) to buck his grandfather's edict against smoking. Over family objections, he wangled his way into the Army as a private after he had twice been marked 4-F by his draft board (he is almost blind in one eye). He left the Army in January 1946, a captain in the Air Forces...
...Woman's Vengeance (Universal-International), an original screenplay by Aldous Huxley, ran into more than the customary flurry of title trouble. Huxley worked the script up out of his short story, The Gioconda Smile. The studio, advising him that this title was "too obtuse," asked him to try again. Huxley cheerfully suggested another he has used successfully: Mortal Coils. After a good deal of considering, U-I rejected that one on the grounds that people might mistake it for Brooklynese for "curls" or "girls" (doubtless a goil named Moitle...