Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G-M stars Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson...
...please even his most insatiable fans ; popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether she acts...
...booster of private flying, Ackerman plans to display the products of various aircraft manufacturers across the States and perhaps include them in technicolor movies with the many governors who have invited him in for a visit...
...claimed another triumph last week: network color television had been tested and proved. Using the Bell System coaxial cable, CBS had broadcast a Technicolor movie short and color slides from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and return...
This old sway-backed horse opera should have been put out to pasture long ago. Even saddled with Technicolor (about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...