Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Derck, a new product of the star mill who looks as if he should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from...
...except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
...week a group of harassed neutrals formed the Paris Citizens' League and signed up 1,200 members determined to get to the root of the trouble. The League disavowed any intention of strikebreaking, but its sponsor, the Board of Trade, bought a full page in the Paris weekly Star (circ. 1,700) to attack the union leadership as Communist. The League recalled that Kent Rowley, Canadian boss of the United Textile Workers, was interned under the defense-of-Canada regulations in 1940 and released in 1942. Although the Paris local's bylaws called for a two-thirds vote...
...philanthropic work in Los Angeles, where she was once a movie star, Marion Davies, fiftyish, was cited on the radio by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and daughter Anna as "the woman of the day." Mrs. Roosevelt was in line for a distinction of her own: granddaughter Sistie Boettiger Seagraves would present her in midsummer with her first great-grandchild. In an eventful week, the former First Lady did some reminiscing about how much her late husband had enjoyed movies. But, she recalled, he fell asleep during Gone With the Wind and was quite angry on waking up to find that...
...weeks' leave in Miami, 1st Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, onetime fast-stepping West Point football star, sidestepped questions about his reported engagement to Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17. Just after the warm greeting, a conscientious photographer caught Elizabeth helping Glenn wipe away the traces of lipstick...