DOCSLIB.ORG

Haverford News2 627 $2.00 a Year Volume 33—Number 11 Haverford (And Ardmore), Pa., Tuesday, December 2, 1941 R

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Haverford News2 627� $2.00 a Year Volume 33—Number 11 Haverford (And Ardmore), Pa., Tuesday, December 2, 1941 R HAVERFORD NEWS VOLUME 33—NUMBER 11 HAVERFORD (AND ARDMORE), PA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941 2 627 $2.00 A YEAR Glee Club To Give Two College Students Sentenced Chem Club to Hear I. R. C. To Be Host Opening Concert For Refusal to Register for Draft Dr. Starkweather To Seven Colleges Christ and many others since His Dr. Howard W. Starkweather, Satterthwait Gives time." noted research chemist, will At Harem!' College Statement 'Accepting In addition he stated, "I cannot be the speaker at the meeting For Political Quiz believe that war is the way of love of the Chemistry Club in the Penalty Imposed offered by God or will ever solve Chemistry Laboratory, Thurs- Group Also Appears any problems without creating in- day at 8 P.M. The subject of Contest Tolle Held Two Quaker college stud- finitely greater ones. I cannot look his talk will be "Neoprene, At Bryn Mawr Service on registration for military serv- the Synthetic Rubber." Thursday Afternoon ents were sentenced Wednes- Dr. Starkweather, who is And Planetarium day to serve a year and a day ice as a loving act towards anyone, head of the polymerization di- In Common Room at a Federal prison farm at English or German, French' or vision of the Jackson Research The Glee Club season starts Italian. I certainly could not ex- Laboratories in Wilmington, With seven colleges com- Saturday with a concert at Danbury, Conn., for refusal to pect, at least, the Germans and the peting, the annual Intercol- register for selective service. Italians to look on it as a loving Del., was one of the original Harcum Junim>College. The act, and our God asks us not only investigators in the field of legiate Political Quiz will lie, program will consist of carols, One was Arnold C. Satterth- artificial rubber. held in the Common Room wait, a junior, and the other to love those who love us, but to folk-songs, liturgical music, love those who would destroy us, Thursday at 3:00 p. m. The and several works of the old was Frederick Howard Rich- who are our enemies. I thorough- College International Relaz.v- ards, a sophomore at Swarth- masters. At the invitation of ly believe that thin is the way to "Review" Board tions Club is to act as host, the Franklin Institute, the more. Both are descendants bring a lasting peace to this earth. and Edgar Bell and Courts Club will participate in a spec- of prominent early American Pails to Understand To Hold Meeting Oulahan will ask the ques- ial Christmas performance on Quakers. "I cannot understand how a life tions. , Monday, December 8, at the Judge J. Cullen Ganey made the such as all of us desire can poss- sentence and pointed out that, had ibly be attained by spreading hate, Symposium Planned At 7:90 Dr. H. Duncan Hall will Planetarium. the students registered, they could death, and chaos throughout the speak in the Common Room on the The Club will also be heard in , have taken advantage of the sec- world," he continued. "It is easier . On Haverford Alumni topic "The British Commonwealth the annual Christmas concert at tions of the Selective Service Law for me to understand how love and of Nations." Students, faculty Bryn Mawr College on Sunday, De- which provided for the conscienti- kindness working on the hearts of In C.O. Work Camps members, and others are invited cember 14. The program will be ous objettors to military duty. He even the most hardened men would to both events, the Club also an- The editorial board of the Hav- nounced. held in Goodhart Hall, and the stated, "This decision is pathetic bring the cooperative, joyful lives erford Review `Will hold its first combined glee clubs of Haverford and tragic. There is something to of which we all dream. meeting on Wednesday to discuss Started by Temple and Bryn Mawr will be accompan- be said for your attitude. I doubt, "I do not say the way I defend the problems raised by the first Started two years ago by Tem- ied by an orchestra consisting of however, if there is anything com- will be easy. Many must pilfer, issue and to plan for future edi- undergraduates of Haverford, Bryn mendable in setting oneself against many must die. I do say that I be- ple University, the Quiz was won tions. Eleven of the thirteen mem- last year by Haverford, which has Mawr, and Swarthmore, with a a democratic form of government. lieve from the bottom of my heart bers of the board are expected to few professional musicians. I have no alternative than to im- that a cooperative life of love and kept the plaque on exhibition in attend the meeting. The waiters' the Common Room. Contestants Arranged in Two Groups pose the minimum sentence." • kindness will be attainable this dining room will be used for the way. first time as a banquet room when this year include Bryn Mawr, Hav- The program will he arranged in Plead "Nolo Contendere" "I do not call for a life of soft- erford, the University of Pennsyl- two groups. The first will consist the board meets for dinner preced- Both students pleaded "nolo con- ness and ease. Physically, there ing the business discussion. vania. Rosemont, St. Joseph's, of "Gloria in Excelsis Den," a chor- tendere" (offering no defense) and will always be tremendous tasks Swarthmore. and Temple—each of al fanfare by Martin Shaw, fol- Managing editor M. Wayne Mose- made statements regarding their to perform. Intellectually, there ley stated that one of the main which will be represented by four lowed by an original carol by War- will always bit problems to solve. students. ren D. Anderson. Mr. Lafford, di- actions. "I believe," Satterthwalt features of the next issue, to be said in his statement, "in a life of Esthetically, there will always be published February 3, would be a Questions for the contest have rector of the group, has spoken new ways to be discovered through symposium on Haverfordians at been made up by Professors John very highly of this last work, and love, a life that many Quakers have which the beautiful things of life C.O. camps. Articles by Jonathan Herndon and Benjamin Gerig. states that it is an excellent piece tried to live, a life as preached by Continued as Page I. Col. 4 Steere, Samuel Snipes, Francis The three judges selected are Pro- of music with great possibilities. Brown, Emerson Darnell and other fessor Herndon, Dr. J. Rowland Next on the program will be Mandelbaum to Address alumni will make up the sym- Pennock, Chairman of the Politi- "Make We Merry," a 16th Century College Will Hear posium. There will probably also cal Science Department at Swarth- carol with music by Shaw. The Philosophy Club Meeting be a contribution by William Henry more, and Dr. Helen D: Reid, Lec- group concludes with Watt's "Cra- Noted Statesman Dr. Maurice Mandelbaum, Asso- Chamberlin, alumnus and author of turer in Political Science at Bryn dle Sang." The tune of this song ciate Professor of Philosophy at the recently published book, "The Mawr. The institution winning is an old Northumberland one also Swarthmore College, will address World's Iron Age." the contest this year will have its arranged by Shaw. Bruening Is Now the Philosophy Club on Thursday, Moseley also stated that the New name inscribed on the plaque and Williams Work to be Heard Professor at Harvard David Emery announced Sun- York Herald-Tribune contained an will have possession of it during day. Tht meeting will be held in the 1941-1942 season. The second part of the program article on the publication, and that The College will welcome a man 38 Lloyd Hull at 7:30. Dr. Man- he has received complimentary let- Conference to be Held will consist of the "Fantasia on Old of world-wide reputation in the delbaum's subject will be the re- ters from many persons, including English Christmas Carols," by R. field of-government when Heinrich lation between Psychology and William Allen White, editor of the A conference on "Guides to Vaughan Williams, and "Born To- Bruening, German Chancellor in Philosophy. Emporia "Gazette." American Foreign Policy" will be day, by Sweelinek. The former is the pre-Hitler days, speaks in held at Swarthmore College on arranged for baritone solo, which Roberta Hall, on Thursday evening, December 13. Students who wish will be presented by Richard Bauer, December 11. to attend this conference should no- with chorus and orchestra. The The noted statesman's subject Selective Service Act Creates tify Courts Oulahan, President of program will be repeated the next will be "Democracy: Indigenous or the International Relations Club, evening in Roberta Hall. Alien to the Continent of Europe." Problems for College Officials as soon as possible. As the former head of a democracy which has since renounced democra- By RICHARD WARREN Dean Katherine McBride tic ideals, Bruening is particular. Haverford Administration officers, like the officials of ly fitted to discuss the topic. Equ- every educational institution in the country, face a unique Study of Art and Music Of Radcliffe Named ally renowned as a political scho- lar, Bruening has made a special problem in the draft. Dean H. Tatnall Brown, in an inter- Planned by Committee Bryn Mawr President study of the political evolution of view on Friday, characterized the problem as a "knotty one, Recently Reorganized Dr. Katherine McBride has been the German Lower Rhine Provinces. and one that would grow even more knotty next year." Judg- chosen to succeed Dr.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Schedule of the Films of Billy Wilder
    je Museum of Modern Art November 1964 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Circle 5-8900 Cable: Modernart THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART FILM LIBRARY PRESENTS THE FILMS OF BILLY WILDER Dec. 13.16 MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (PEOPLE ON SUNDAY). I929. Robert Siodmak's cele­ brated study of proletarian life gave Wilder hie first taste of film­ making. (George Eastman House) 55 minutes. No English titles. Dec. IT-19 EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE. 1951. Small boys carry on psychological war­ fare against a crook in this Gerhard Lamprecht comedy for which Wilder helped write the script. (The Museum of Modern Art) 70 minutes. No English titles. Dec. 20-23 NINOTCHKA. 1939. Ernst Lubitsch's ironic satire on East-West relations just before World War II, in which Garbo gave her most delicately articulated performance with Melvyn Douglas, and for which Wilder, with Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, wrote the script. Based on the story by Melchior Lengyel. (M-G-M) 110 minutes. Dec. 2k~26 MIDNIGHT. 1959. One of the most completely and purposely ridiculous examples of the era of screwball comedy, with a powerhouse of a cast, including Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore, and Wilder and Brackett*s brilliant non-sequitur script. (MCA) 9U minutes. Dec. 27-30 HOLD BACK THE DAWN. 19*11. The plight of "stateless persons" in the late '30s and early 'UOs, with Olivia de Havllland, romantically yet convincingly dramatised by Wilder and Brackett. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. (MCA) 115 minutes. Dec. 31* THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR. 19te. This, the first film Wilder directed, Jan.
    [Show full text]
  • Leisen, Mitchell (1898-1972) by Craig Kaczorowski
    Leisen, Mitchell (1898-1972) by Craig Kaczorowski Encyclopedia Copyright © 2015, glbtq, Inc. Entry Copyright © 2010 glbtq, Inc. Reprinted from http://www.glbtq.com Mitchell Leisen was a noted director during Hollywood's Golden Age. He is credited with more than 40 feature films, which are celebrated for their stylishness and visual elegance. He excelled at witty, romantic comedies that are often tinged with a touch of melancholy, such as the classic "screwball" comedy Easy Living (1937) and the clever, cosmopolitan farce Midnight (1939). Leisen has also been hailed for his "gender role-reversal" films, where the male lead is cast as the sex object and the female lead as the aggressor. Not surprising for a bisexual director working in Hollywood, Leisen's other thematic obsessions included mistaken identity, role-playing, and deception. Leisen returned to the same performers film after film, developing strong working partnerships. Although he was instrumental in shaping the careers of such actors as Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland, Leisen became typed as a "woman's director" for the fastidious, detailed attention he paid to the costuming and art direction of his productions, as well as for the nuanced, spontaneous performances he coaxed from such actresses as Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, and Olivia de Havilland. Among many film historians, Leisen's artistic reputation has been tarnished somewhat by the stormy relationships he became embroiled in with some of his screenwriters, most notably Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. After working on several films with Leisen, both writers demanded to be allowed to direct their own scripts, in part because they objected to the sophisticated veneer of Leisen's directorial style and to the changes he frequently made to their screenplays.
    [Show full text]
  • Mitchell Leisen Papers
    Finding Aid for the Mitchell Leisen Papers Collection Processed by: Samuel A. Henley, 5.8.2019 Finding Aid Written by: Samuel A. Henley, 5.8.2019 OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION: Origination/Creator: Leisen, Mitchell Title of Collection: Mitchell Leisen Papers Date of Collection: 1898 -- 1972 Physical Description: 12 boxes, 33 Bound scripts Identification: Special Collection #24 Repository: American Film Institute Louis B. Mayer Library, Los Angeles, CA RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS: Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research. Copyright: The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Louis B. Mayer Library. Acquisition Method: Donated by Eleanor Broder (personal assistant) for Mitchell Leisen, from September 28, 1970 up until his death in 1971. BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORY NOTE: Mitchell Leisen, (born October 6, 1898, Menominee, Michigan, U.S. — died October 28, 1972, Los Angeles, California), American costume designer, art director, and film and television director. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments. He directed his first film in 1933 with CRADLE SONG and became known for his keen sense of aesthetics in the glossy Hollywood melodramas and screwball comedies he turned out. His motion pictures — almost all of them made at Paramount — were often dominated by strong female leads such as Barbara Stanwyck, Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland, Claudette Colbert, and Carole Lombard, who rarely were paired with a male actor of equal stature or presence. His best-known films include the Alberto Casella adaptation DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (1934) and MURDER AT THE VANITIES (1934), a musical mystery story with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra, as well as MIDNIGHT (1939) and HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941), both scripted by Billy Wilder.
    [Show full text]
  • NINOTCHKA (1939, 110 Min)
    February 1, 2011 (XXII:3) Ernst Lubitsch, NINOTCHKA (1939, 110 min) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch, Melchior Lengyel (story) Produced by Ernst Lubitsch and Sidney Franklin Cinematography by William H. Daniels Edited by Gene Ruggiero Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons Costume Design by Adrian Greta Garbo...Ninotchka Melvyn Douglas...Leon Ina Claire...Swana Bela Lugosi...Razinin Sig Ruman...Iranoff Felix Bressart...Buljanoff Alexander Granach...Kopalski Gregory Gaye...Rakonin CHARLES BRACKETT (November 26, 1892, Saratoga Springs, New National Film Registry 1990 York – March 9, 1969, Los Angeles, California) won four Academy Awards: 1946 – Best Screenplay (The Lost Weekend) – shared w. ERNST LUBITSCH (January 28, 1892, Berlin, Germany – November Billy Wilder; 1951 – Best Screenplay (Sunset Blvd.) – w. Billy 30, 1947, Hollywood, California) won an honorary Academy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.; 1954 – Best Screenplay (Titanic) – w. Award in 1947. He directed 47 films, some of which were 1948 Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen; and 1958 – Honorary Award – That Lady in Ermine, 1946 Cluny Brown, 1943 Heaven Can Wait, (“for outstanding service to the Academy”). He has 46 1942 To Be or Not to Be, 1941 That Uncertain Feeling, 1940 The screenwriting titles, some of which are 1959 Journey to the Center Shop Around the Corner, 1939 Ninotchka, 1938 Bluebeard's Eighth of the Earth, 1956 “Robert Montgomery Presents”, 1955 The Girl Wife, 1937 Angel, 1935 La veuve joyeuse, 1934 The Merry Widow, in the Red Velvet
    [Show full text]
  • AFI PREVIEW Is Published by the Sat, Jul 9, 7:00; Wed, Jul 13, 7:00 to Pilfer the Family's Ersatz Van American Film Institute
    ISSUE 77 AFI.com/Silver AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER JULY 8–SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 44T H AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HONOREE A FILM RESTROSPECTIVE THE COMPOSER B EHIND THE GREAT EST A MERICAN M OVIES O F OUR TIME PLUS GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR ★ ’90S C INEMA N OW ★ JOHN C ARPENT E R LOONEY TUNES ★ KEN ADAM REMEMBERED ★ OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND CENTENNIAL Contents AFI Life Achievement Award: John Williams AFI Life Achievement Award: July 8–September 11 John Williams ......................................2 John Williams' storied career as the composer behind many of the greatest American films and television Keepin' It Real: '90s Cinema Now ................6 series of all time boasts hundreds of credits across seven decades. His early work in Hollywood included working as an orchestrator and studio pianist under such movie composer maestros as Bernard Herrmann, Ken Adam Remembered ..........................9 Alfred Newman, Henry Mancini, Elmer Bernstein and Franz Waxman. He went on to write music for Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road ....9 more than 200 television programs, including the groundbreaking anthology series ALCOA THEATRE Glorious Technicolor .............................10 and KRAFT TELEVISION THEATRE. Perhaps best known for his enduring collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, his scores are among the most iconic and recognizable in film history, from the edge-of-your- Special Engagements .................. 14, 16 seat JAWS (1975) motif to the emotional swell of E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) and the haunting UCLA Festival of Preservation ...............14 elegies of SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993). Always epic in scale, his music has helped define over half a century of the motion picture medium.
    [Show full text]
  • Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture
    Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture By Ted Friedman New York: New York University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-1847-2739-5. 31 illustrations, 286pp. £14.50 (pbk), £41.50 (hbk) A review by Anne Petersen, University of Oregon, USA Electric Dreams takes two issues to task: our collective lack of historical context concerning the computer, and the promotion of the hope for a utopian (computer-influenced) future. By investigating the tension induced by what he terms "the dialectic of technological determinism," Ted Friedman, a Professor of Communication at Georgia State University, claims there is room, even hope, for utopian visions of the future. Because "Americans don"t take computers for granted yet," their uses and meanings are not fixed (2). Friedman calls his readers to think differently about computers, to reexamine their history, their exponential evolution, and their future utility. Instead of commodities with ever-increasing speed, memory, and capabilities, if we consider them as creations with the potential to dissolve gender or race, to eliminate (instead of produce) sweat-shop labour....then the utopian technological sphere envisioned by generations of sci-fi writers and pro-technology pundits may be realised. The only way that this will happen, however, is if we cease thinking about a computer as merely the labour-saving tool that performs a number of processes: that allows me to word process this review, to email it as an attachment, to read Scope on-line. Electric Dreams forwards this thesis by providing the reader with an engaging, extremely readable account of the genealogy of the computer. Friedman introduces each "ancestor" of the laptop, from Charles Babbage and Ana Lovelace's original innovations to the basement- filling mainframes created for the military.
    [Show full text]
  • A Guide to the Filmscripts in the Lilly Library Book Department
    From Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion to Zorro Rides Again: A Guide to the Filmscripts in the Lilly Library Book Department There are presently over nine hundred scripts in the Lilly Li­ brary Book department. The movies represented range from the silent version of Ben Hur to Breaking Away. The collection's scope is broad; one can find scripts for great film classics, musicals, mys­ teries, adventures, shorts, westerns, comedies, and science fiction movies. Many types of filmscripts make up the collection-drafts, cutting continuities, preliminary editions, shooting finals. Gener­ ally the scripts are accompanied by publicity photos. Although the majority of filmscripts in the collection are for talkies, several scripts are for silent films. The text of a silent film­ script is devoted primarily to directions for camera shots and de­ scriptions of the action, and provides title captions instead of dia­ logue. The earliest script in the collection is for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (released in 1921), the film that gave Rudolph Valentino his first starring role. The Big Parade (1925), King Vidor's popular film about an average man's experiences at war, estab­ lished John Gilbert as a top star. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first full length feature with both singing and talking, starring AI }olson in his first movie role. Wings (1928), considered to be the last of the silent spectaculars, was the first movie to receive an Academy Award. Clara Bow and Charles Rogers starred in this tale of World War I flyers. One of the most lavish films of the silent era was the the 1926 MGM version of Ben Hur, starring Ramon Novarro, directed by William Wellman.
    [Show full text]
  • Arrow Academy Arrow Acade Arrow Academy Arrow
    ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW 1ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY CONTENTS Cast and Crew 4 Frontiers of the Heart: 7 Revisiting Hold Back the Dawn (2019) by Farran Smith Nehme About the Restoration 19 ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW2 ACADEMY 3 ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY CAST Charles Boyer Georges Iscovescu Olivia de Havilland Emmy Brown Paulette Goddard Anita Dixon Victor Francen Van Den Luecken Walter Abel Inspector Hammock Curt Bois Bonbois Rosemary DeCamp Berta Kurz Eric Feldary Josef Kurz Nestor Paiva Fred Flores Eva Puig Lupita Micheline Cheirel Christine Madeleine Le Beau Anni CREW Directed by Mitchell Leisen Produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder From a Story by Ketti Frings Director of Photography Leo Tover, A.S.C. Music by Victor Young ARROW ACADEMY ARROWEdited by ACADEMY Doane Harrison Sound Recording Harold Lewis and John Cope Art Direction Hans Dreier and Robert Usher Gowns Edith Head ARROW ACADEMY ARROW4 ACADEMY 5 ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY ARROW ACADEMY FRONTIERS OF THE HEART: Revisiting Hold Back the Dawn by Farran Smith Nehme A refugee from an “undesirable” country – one with a US immigration quota that won’t get around to him for nearly a decade – finds himself stuck in a Mexican border town with hundreds of other desperate refugees, all looking for a way in. It sounds like a feature in today’s newspaper, but we’re talking about Hold Back the Dawn, directed by Mitchell Leisen at Paramount in 1940, as Hitler was overrunning Europe, and released in early 1941.
    [Show full text]
  • Victor Young Collection11.Mwalb02220
    Victor Young collection11.MWalB02220 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 23, 2021. eng Describing Archives: A Content Standard Brandeis University 415 South St. Waltham, MA URL: https://findingaids.brandeis.edu/ Victor Young collection11.MWalB02220 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 5 Other Descriptive Information ....................................................................................................................... 5 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Scores ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 LPs ............................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter 5. All Dressed up and Running Wild: Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Chapter 5 ALL DRESSED UP AND RUNNING WILD: SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) “Whatever meaning you will fi nd in my pictures, it’s all put in kind of con- traband, you know—sort of smuggled in.” —Billy Wilder1 “Satires that are understood by the censor should indeed be forbidden.” —Karl Kraus2 Trading in Counterfeits A hearse drives through a city at night, four somber men inside seated around a coffi n. A siren is heard, faint at fi rst but rapidly growing louder. The driver and the man next to him exchange nervous glances; the men in back peek through the curtain and see a police car bearing down on them. The driver accelerates, weaving crazily through traffi c while the police- men behind them open fi re. The men in back pull a couple of sawed-off shotguns from a hidden overhead rack and return fi re. Bullets riddle their car, smashing the glass panel. Suddenly, the police car skids out of control, jumps the curb, and comes to a screeching halt while the gangsters escape. But bullets have penetrated the coffi n and liquid is spurting through the bullet holes. Taking the lid off the men reveal that the coffi n is fi lled to the top with liquor bottles, some of them broken. A superimposed title informs us where we are—it’s Chicago, 1929. Thus opens Some Like It Hot, set in Al Capone’s wintry city during the time of Prohibition, the speakeasy, organized crime, and gang warfare. Yet what begins as a gangster fi lm in the tradition of Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) and such Warner classics as The Public Enemy (William Well- man, 1931), Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938) and The Roar- ing Twenties (Raoul Walsh, 1939) soon reveals its more parodic dimension.
    [Show full text]
  • Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
    Billy Wilder (1906-2002) “People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with special effects. I couldn't do that. I quit smoking because I couldn't reload my Zippo..” — Billy Wilder, quoted in The New York Times An Austrian Legend He was born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906 in a remote corner of a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Poland). He died at his home in Beverly Hills, California on March 27, 2002. In the intervening 95 years, an impressive life story unfolded, a life that was to have a lasting impact on Hollywood and world cinema. Wilder's mother nicknamed her young son “Billie” because she had seen the Buffalo Bill Wild West show as a teenager. By the time Billie was four years old (the “Billy” spelling came after Wilder was in the U.S.), the family had a fine home in Vienna's toney First District, living both there and in Kraców until the First World War tore the old Empire apart and created hard times for the Wilders and all Austrians. The recent Broadway and London musical productions of Sunset Boulevard, based on Billy Wilder's 1950 movie of the same name, and the 1995 remake of Sabrina, Wilder's 1954 romantic tale featuring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden, are good illustrations of how director Billy Wilder's films tend to endure, much like the man himself. Wilder was still active in his nineties, even if he was no longer directing award-winning movies.
    [Show full text]
  • Double Indemnity (1944) Detailed Notes
    Double Indemnity (1944) Detailed notes Double Indemnity (1944) is director Billy Wilder's classic film noir masterpiece - a cynical, witty, and sleazy thriller about adultery, corruption and murder. The urgently-told, highly-stylized story was Wilder's third film after The Major and the Minor (1942) and Five Graves to Cairo (1943). Wilder effectively used locales in the greater Los Angeles area: the Glendale train station, the Hollywood Bowl, 'Jerry's Market,' a night-time downtown office building, a Spanish-style house on Quebec St., the protagonist's apartment at the Chateau Marmont, etc. The material for Double Indemnity was derived from 'hard-boiled' James M. Cain's 1943 melodramatic novella Three of a Kind that first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form in Liberty Magazine. It was adapted for the screen by director Billy Wilder and detective novelist Raymond Chandler (who was best known for his character Philip Marlowe, played by Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944), Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), and Robert Montgomery inLady in the Lake (1946), among others). [Cain's first infamous novel was a 1934 best-seller that was also staged in 1936 and made into a film in both 1946 and 1981 - Tay Garnett's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) with John Garfield and Lana Turner, and Bob Rafelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. Luchino Visconti's Ossessione (1942, It.)was an unauthorized version of Cain's work - the first of the three. Another of Cain's 1941 novels was also
    [Show full text]