Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comparison is inevitable when a film such as "Laura" is transplanted to the legitimate stage, and, for once, the celluloid version is clearly the superior of the two. The Hollywood production, combining superb acting and photography with fine music, was notable for swift pacing and tense atmosphere--the very characteristics lacking in the "Laura" at the Wilbur. Producer Hunt Stromberg Jr. and author Vera Caspary apparently felt that the theatre presented the opportunity denied by the screen to develop real people complete with libidos, but the play starring Miriam Hopkins, Otto Kruger, and Tom Neal, in no way improves upon...
...rest of the book, Stalin's career, from the Bolshevik coup d'etat of 1917 to his final ousting of Trotsky, suffers from a glut of documents, letters, telegrams, secret official papers and memoranda. Only Trotsky, a superb pamphleteer, who is practically incapable of writing badly, could have made his insistent exegesis readable...
...Glass Menagerie. Touching picture of a troubled, shabby-genteel family with Laurette Taylor superb as the mother (TIME, April...
...squirrel teeth clamped, Giuseppe stepped up to bat. A pitched ball hit him, but he spurned the umpire's offer to take first base. Then he banged out homer No. 14 high over the centerfield fence, 402 ft. away. Everybody was beginning to talk, too, about his superb fielding, running, throwing. Such spring training carryings-on were usually reserved for rambunctious rookies-not the great Giuseppe Paolo ("Joe") Di Maggio of the New York Yankees...
Blessed with the superb raw material of what this reviewer considers one of the best comedy teams on record, Paramount has whipped up a drawn-out melange of corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...