Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were a television milestone (TIME, March 29). But pictures of jazz bands tootling are as dull on television as they are on a movie screen. Crooners, in particular, are finding the telecamera's unwinking stare an embarrassing experience. (Notable exception: NBC's pretty Singer Kyle MacDonnell, an unknown to radio listeners, but already becoming television's No. 1 pin-up girl...
Britishers Unknown...
...four of the Britishers rank as unknown quantities. The factor which seems to favor the Americans is the severe disruption of English tennis felt during the war. "While our squad boasts no national champion, we don't suspect many a British star is kicking around nowadays," says Barnaby...
Joan Fontaine's 1948 bid for the Academy Award, "Letter From An Unknown Woman," teeters perilously close to the brink of complete bathos for the better part of two hours, but it never quite falls in. Set in the Vienna of 1900, it concerns the lifelong passion of a pretty girl for a rather stupid young composer, played woodenly by Louis Jourdan. Miss Fontaine gazes lovingly at Jourdan while she is a child, and when she has grown up, runs away from home for a romantic one-night spree with him. He subsequently takes a trip, and after...
...lives in an apartment that would have made Johann Strauss' mouth water. The background of Vienna looks convincing, the supporting cast does fairly well, and if the plot, taken from a novel by Stefan Zweig but curiously reminiscent of "The Constant Nymph," were not so contrived, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" would come close to being a grade "B" picture...