Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home of the Brave (Screen Plays; United Artists), as a Broadway play by Arthur Laurents, described the crack-up of a Jewish G.I. who was a victim of race prejudice. The movie version, produced by the same small studio that made Champion (TIME, April 11), daringly substitutes a Negro in the central role. Home of the Brave is thus the first of Hollywood's new series of Negro problem films to cross the finish line...
...broke her heart, Hollywood's voluptuous Rhonda Fleming wired the Freshman Jubilee Committee yesterday, but she couldn't make her scheduled appearance at Harvard. Last minute revisions in her filming schedule will require Miss Fleming's presence at her studio early Monday morning, the telegram said...
...kidding? The awards themselves have been made by a majority-vote of all the writers, electricians, actors, photographers, etc., who had five-dollars for dues. These men and women are employed by a studio which makes movies. In order to assure the continuation of his paycheck, the employee would logically vote at least one film award to his studio, and perhaps the straight ticket if he's a good man. Even if he's only allowed by his union to spray cob-webs in studio haunted houses, he's wise enough to know the immense exploitation value in an Academy...
Television: Actors Studio (ABC-TV) "uninhibited and brilliant pioneering in the field of televised drama...
...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...