Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close examination. She's Working Her Way Through College is seen to be a tuned-up, toned-down version of the 1940 James Thurber-Elliott Nugent stage comedy, The Male Animal.* In the play, the professor fought for the right to read a letter by Bartolomeo Vanzetti to his English class. In substituting a stripteaser for Vanzetti, the picture has been divested not only of the play's significance, but also of most of its rich humor. At one point in The Male Animal, the professor said: "A college should be concerned with ideas." Midwest State, as represented...
Carrie. Polished movie version of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, with Jennifer Jones and Laurence Olivier as star-crossed lovers. (TIME, June...
...could pay. In four weeks it grossed $110,000. Encouraged by that success, the Italians launched an ambitious project to "dub" English dialogue into twelve major pictures a year. Last Week Bitter Rice, which has already grossed more than $3,400,000 in the U.S. in a subtitle version, was playing with English dialogue in Manhattan. Some critics thought the English words were hard to reconcile with the Italian actors. But Italian producers think that Americans will become used to dubbed-in English, just as Italian audiences have become accustomed to dubbed-in Italian in U.S. films. Ironically, Hollywood...
Carrie. Polished movie version of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, with Jennifer Jones and Laurence Olivier as star-crossed lovers (TIME, June...
...Story of Robin Hood. Flavorful British version of the old legend, with Richard Todd fighting for king, country and fair Maid Marian (TIME, June...