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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Far from Hollywood, two dozen movie stars were hard at work last week at a booming cinema sideline: the personal-appearance tour. Braving the clothes-tugging of fans and the baying of autograph hounds, seven- stars had journeyed to London to show themselves at this week's Royal Film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Flesh | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Horseback & Hospital. When a star combines high sex appeal with low resistance to the demands of press-agents, she works all the harder. For The Girl from Jones Beach, Virginia Mayo put in appearances at ten towns on Long Island's south shore, with receptions by civic dignitaries at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Flesh | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Chicago Deadline (Paramount) is a lagging, maudlin movie with a tricky plot that never quite gets untangled. A sentimental reporter (Alan Ladd) who finds a pretty corpse in a cheap hotel is moved to track down the people in her fat address book and find out how she came to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

The anti-male message-that the city is a jungle of ravening wolves-is hackneyed, but the heroine (Donna Reed) is original and haunting: she is a sweet girl who simply wanders changelessly and sadly through assorted jobs, cities, and love affairs. All that Ladd manages to discover is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

The Big Wheel (United Artists) is a racing-car movie, and its cyclonic energy and pace are likely to leave audiences with dust in their eyes. As a chesty, first-year driver, Mickey Rooney burns up the racing circuit from Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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