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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farewell to Grace. His chapter on Grace Moore was written before her death: ". . . she was one of those obnoxious little girls, congenitally exhibitionist, for whom some sort of career that would keep her before the public gaze was inevitable. . . . She doesn't really love music...
...best-known oil, exhibited at the Academy in 1936, and the Academy's award-winner of the year, showed that Belcher's realism was of a far more literal sort than Ben Shahn's. Belcher once described the painting as "a picture of a shabby though very happy gentleman who is obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see how he has been enjoying himself-there are heads and tails of herrings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that...
...money, and buy needed goods in the world's cheapest markets; 3) decide how much European nations shall contribute to their own reconstruction. Above all, the corporation would check up continuously to make sure that U.S. aid was not being misused. In short, he wanted a sort of super-WPB to run the whole thing. With such a businesslike approach, Aldrich thought that his corporation would also attract direct investment in western Europe by private U.S. corporations, thus speed the job of rebuilding...
...their bridal night Stephen gets drunk and breaks down her bedroom door. Although they seem to do nothing but snarl at each other from then on, this refined bit of symbolism results in a son. As a sort of judgment against them, the son is born clubfooted. Stephen works hard to make a man of him-too hard to suit mother. Eventually the little boy, hearing his parents quarrel, falls downstairs and dies. The stockmarket does the same...
...finds that an elderly G-man (Art Smith) is also after the crook. The picture develops into a sort of three-legged rat race, carried on against the background of a small-time posh hotel, a grim little cantina and a turbulent fiesta. The movie has some well-written, better-spoken tough talk, plenty of menace, and some sharp violence. A good deal of it is just routine pocket thriller. But thanks to Director Montgomery and Producer Joan Harrison there is also some good New Mexican location atmosphere...