Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provinces and were in hiding. It was reported that the Allies would round them up, send them to India and Siberia. Also allegedly somewhere in Iran was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who engineered Arab riots in Palestine, helped Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani stage his revolt in Iraq. The British had him paged...
...hands of a lesser director than Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door) this theme might well have turned sour. By superb cinema artistry he raises it to the level of subtle, entertaining comedy without losing sight of its basic problem. That tour de force is a rare cinema triumph...
...vaccinated for smallpox; paralysis developed. In Hot Springs, Ark. last fortnight she sat up for the first time, then was taken to Minneapolis for treatment by famed Australian Nurse Elizabeth Kenny (TIME, June 23). But it may be six months or more before Soprano Lawrence can mount a stage, much less a horse...
...Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...
...completely conceived was the stage play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...