Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty as any female agent need be, but she parachutes into occupied France, goes briskly about her hazardous work and never once bats an eyelash at either Nazi or Ally. All the French streets and London buildings in Rue Madeleine were photographed in Quebec and New England. Now that studio technicians have learned how to reproduce everything from the Gare du Nord to the Himalayas right in Hollywood,* Producer de Rochemont is plugging for the revolutionary theory that everything-rooms, street scenes, shipyards, etc.-should be shot on the actual spot and not on phony sets. Some experts...
...scene in Variety Girl, a movie about backstage Hollywood, Paramount was reported to be constructing a life-sized sound stage replica of its own studio gate...
...really does look like Keaton (and poses before a mirror as his own model), lives and works in solid comfort on Brussels' conservative Rue d'Ecosse. He is a dreamer who reads little, belongs to no church, no political party. The tables and cupboards in his studio are cluttered with seven human skulls, and the walls are banked with huge, infinitely complicated paintings. (A recent one, called Unrest in the City, includes some 1,200 figures.) Says he: "I work patiently and minutely like the Flemish primitives, Van Eyck and Memling." He paints on plywood made especially...
...Problems. In 1943 Miss Anderson married Orpheus Fisher, an architect who works in Danbury, Conn. Now they live, not far from Danbury, on a beautiful, 105-acre farm, "Marianna." Inside, the handsome, white frame, hillside house has been remodeled by Architect Fisher. He also designed the big, good-looking studio in which Miss Anderson practices...
Working at Home. Since last January, Mary Howard has recorded at home; network programs are piped directly to her studio in midtown Manhattan. Throughout them all, she has to adjust continually an intricate assembly of instruments: turntable speed controls, cutting tools, a wailful of sound devices. But engineering does only half the job; the rest is subject to the varying laws of a wholly inexact science: taste...