Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more wary of the ethereal quality of his friend and there are several good scenes as the two talk about the future and the past, one never believing the other, but never really doubting. His Portrait of Jenny makes Cotton famous, but the girl, now lost, matters more than success and he finds her after a long search in a storm off Cape Cod. But although the artist senses he unreality, constantly commenting on it, the porducer was apparently afraid the point was fuzzy and employed all kinds of trick photography and mood music to accentuate the "message...
Howard Koeper may know a great deal about architecture, but his attack on the planning and interior decoration of the Lamont Library seems hardly justified in view of its functional success. The architects' lack of imagination is somewhat balanced, as in Littauer and Houghton, by efficient interior design...
Heartened by its first profitable period in two years, E.L. last week ended its third shutdown by starting work on four films. The outlook was brightened by the box-office success of The Red Shoes, one of the films it has been distributing...
...Wessex Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, was assembled in England in January 1944 and destroyed in Normandy six months later. From the City, from the Plough is the chronicle of its infantrymen's life & death. Published last year in Britain, the book was both a bestseller and a critical success. Some reviewers described it as the All Quiet of World War II; others were reminded of Journey's End. Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published...
...common in Europe to have one man both write the script and direct the film. (Rossellini and Pagnol are outstanding examples of the success of this method.) Well, somehow or other, a man named Joseph L. Mankiewiez convinced 20th Century Fox that he could do it too. "A Letter to Three Wives" is by no means a work of art; but it is very funny, and has some value as a critical commentary on the American Way of Life...