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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with an original story that seemed, for movie purposes, to be nothing but fragments and figments, DeMille turned four writers loose on the job of working up a convincing script. They telescoped the Biblical account, invented some new sequences, tinkered with motivations, added characters, threw in some dancing girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The dialogue is a lot less convincing, though sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Bride for Sale (RKO Radio) is a tired old triangle farce in which three veterans crank out the creaking whimsy. As a high-powered tax consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

But the Army came and so did the best thing that ever happened to the division: a long rest in Australia, where people get false teeth early. Australian girls couldn't believe the marines' molars were their own. "Finally, this babe with me reached over," said one marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Stern as the battle proved to be, Gloucester was not as bad as the next "rest camp," Pavuvu, and neither-in some ways-was Peleliu, where the division again caught the full fury of war in the Pacific. Pavuvu is a stinking, rat-infested little island in the Solomons, fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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