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...Sawyer!" Thousands of eager-eyed, freckle-faced American boys have marveled at the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as they captured enemy galleons, rescued beautiful princesses, and fought against Captain Kidd's pirates in the muddy waters of the Mississippi. From the life story of Mark Twain, author of these juvenile classics, Warner Brothers has made a faithful biographical movie...
Frederic March plays the title role with the fury, the languor, and the sly wit of the original Twain. If the story fails to hold one's interest all the way through, it is not because of the acting but rather because of the slowness of the last half hour's plot. Alexis Smith, stripped of all glamour and dressed in the old-fashioned clothes in which a flatchested, anemic young girl and a 19th century Hedy Lamarr would look identical, turns in a sentimental performance as Mrs. Twain, whose job it is to control her impetuous husband and give...
...people, see new things, get his facts firsthand. For a while he wrote a successful column of aviation chitchat. In 1935, after a severe attack of influenza, he went to the Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," remembers Scripps-Howard's Editor in Chief George B. ("Deac") Parker. When Ernie proposed that he become a permanent roving reporter, Mellett and Parker agreed...
...Adventures of Mark Twain (Fredric March, Alexis Smith; TIME...
...Adventures of Mark Twain (Fredric March, Alexis Smith; TIME...