Word: studioful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Governor Dwight Green of Illinois was having a case of actor's nerve. Aware that the Republican Convention would be televised, the silver-haired keynoter tiptoed into a television studio and tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop...
...talk is big. Its enthusiasts are sure that it will eventually (maybe sooner) make radio as obsolete as the horse-and empty all the nation's movie houses. Children will go to school in their own living rooms, presidential candidates will win elections from a television studio. Housewives will see on the screen the dresses and groceries they want, and shop by phone...
...television stations do not deny this, but do offer a few excuses. Program directors have operated on the skimpiest of budgets (until recently as much as 80% of television's money and personnel was spent on the engineering end), and against exasperating odds: inadequate studio equipment, a Petrillo ban on live musicians (which ended only nine weeks ago), and Hollywood's cold shoulder. Under the circumstances, it is perhaps remarkable that TV has offered anything at all worth looking...
Beyond that, Hughes plans to sign up the best of Hollywood's independents to make pictures at RKO. Eventually he intends to take an active hand in running things, build up his studio's faded list of stars. As the discoverer of the late Jean Harlow and Jane Russell, Hughes thinks he has the experience for that...
River Lady (Universal-International) is a solid little "sleeper" in a solid set of Technicolor pajamas. The studio seems to have intended making just another Yvonne de Carlo picture. But Scripters D. D. Beauchamp and William Bowers somehow got inspired by a logging war and turned out a trim screenplay; they even went so far as to write some good dialogue. Rough-hewn Rod Cameron turns in a smooth-sawn performance as a lumberjack, and Newcomer Helena Carter is expert as the girl who takes Rod away from his fancy lady (Miss De Carlo). Also starred is a redwood tree...