Word: whorf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics no longer voted conservative, but technicians like John Whorf and Robert Strong Woodward, the Robert A. Tafts of art, kept right on pleasing the public with the kind of landscapes which recall vacations in the country. There were brief 57th Street appearances by Philip Evergood, George Biddle and other reporters of suffering and war, who did their best to give art a message...
...gayer younglove yarn than Sailor rarely turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The Clock's tenderness and sentimental charm (plus moments of mere cuteness), considerably more pace and broad humor...
...very hummable "Always," "Christmas Holiday" has its tense and effective moments. Gale Sondergaard delivers a spine-tingling performance as the aristocratic matriarch of an old New Orleans family, trying to keep her bad little boy from going around murdering people and otherwise disturbing the Creole peace. Richard Whorf portrays the liquor-loving newspaperman in just the right tones of big-time tenderness...
Miss Durbin sings a new song (Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year) and an old one (Always) unusually well, bears up well enough under her elementary dramatic burdens. So do Gene Kelly and Richard Whorf (as a newshawk). But Christmas Holiday, an unsubstantial little tragedy at best, runs through their fingers like no-soap in a bathtub...
With Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in the leading roles, and others like Perey Kilbridge, the witty Yankee taxi driver, Frank Craven and Richard Whorf supporting them, the entire cast turns in a collectively good job of acting. The picture starts with the death of Robert Forest, a prominent and well loved politician, soldier, and public benefactor who turns out to be an enemy agent. Tracy, an admiring newspaper man back from the world battlefronts, dedicates himself to writing the story of Forest's life. He encounters Katharine Hephurn, Forest's wife, and in the process of investigation discovers that...