Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through these trials and tribulations, Actress Scott gives a graceful performance in the time-hallowed actors' feat of getting old convincingly. The acting performances in Cheers For Miss Bishop are smooth and polished all around. But the story is a" dull record punctuated with some vivid moments. It has at times the musty odor of a family album. It is authentic, but the breath of life...
...side of the heaviest battalions, but both sides always claim Him. Last week smooth, pudgy, pipe-smoking Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan, who has never lacked for grandiloquence, issued a gloomy New Year's message which set a new high for God-claiming, seemed to assign the deity a position at the side of, and somewhat inferior to, Yosuke Matsuoka himself...
...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...
...considered the third largest news source in the U. S. More than 400 reporters, from matter-of-fact A. P. to Paul-Prying fan magazines, now scavenge Hollywood for tidbits to feed millions of readers. To keep them happy, Hollywood studios maintain vast publicity departments filled with smooth-writing ex-reporters, quick-smiling "contact men," expert photographers, menial flunkeys...
Aside from Franklin Roosevelt-who is rated an amateur-smooth-tongued, silver-haired, 46-year-old Funnyman Jack Benny is the biggest voice in radio. With a Crossley (Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting) rating of 42.4, an estimated audience of 11,000,000 families, he is so important to General Foods, his sponsor, that the company devotes more than three-quarters of its advertising appropriation for Jell-O to his show. Just what it costs to ballyhoo Jell-O is something General Foods keeps under its hat. But no secret is the staggering gross that Benny will rake in this year...