Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portrait of Jenny (Selznick), originally a wispy, sentimental fantasy by Robert Nathan, has become in Hollywood's hands a piece of purest fustian. The yarn it spins oncerns a young painter (Joseph Cotten) who falls in love with a twelve-year-old sprite of a girl named Jenny (Jennifer Jones). Though she has been dead for years, Jenny goes right on popping in & out of Cotten's life. What is more confusing, she is a few years older every time she appears and soon reaches an age where it is respectable for Gotten, who is aging only normally...
...Down to the Sea In Ships. A fairly seaworthy version of the old whaling yarn, with Richard Widmark in his first sympathetic role (TIME, March...
Down to the Sea in Ships. A fairly seaworthy version of the old whaling yarn, with Richard Widmark in his first sympathetic role (TIME, March...
Down to the Sea in Ships. A fairly seaworthy version of the old whaling yarn, with Richard Widmark in his first sympathetic role (TIME, March...
Last week it came down. The Celanese Corp. of America, third biggest U.S. yarn producer, trimmed its prices of rayon (acetate staple fiber) by 12.5% to 42? a lb., lowest in its history. As other producers, weavers, converters and jobbers began cutting prices to the new pattern, the whole industry joined in its first big postwar price battle...