DOCSLIB.ORG

1939-12-24 [P ]

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
1939-12-24 [P ] Theaters—Radio—Music Pimday Jite Junior Star—Art—Books EIGHT PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 24, 1939. x Merry Yule to You, and You, and Many Others A Year and Its People Give a Drama Department the Occasion For Many a Grateful Wish During Christmas Season By Jay Carmody. For another year. Merry Christmas: the New Yorker for having the same low opinion we did of plays which To Southern India for having been the birthplace of Vivien Leigh, other reviewers praised highly. (Such as “Margin for Error.”) who plays Scarlett O'Hara to the satisfaction of every one who thought To Laurette Taylor in the hope that she still will complete that no one could Scarlett O'Hara to the satisfaction of one. play any anecdote which she has started no less than 20 times to tell this depart- ment. To Vivien Leigh, practically ditto. (Miss Taylor also gives autographs, so her stories are interrupted.) To Lamour for maintaining her for another year Dorothy position Elsa Maxwell Touch Makes as this department's least favorite actress. Frolic of Little Previews. To Ann Sheridan for being just a bright, breezy and beautiful Texas girl in spite of all that oomph blah. To Louise Noonan Miller and Abe Tolkins of the Little Theater, Who * To Edmund Plohn. manager of the National, for disagreeing with have an Elsa Maxwell flair for turning a critics’ screening into a frolic— this department only about matters that were comparatively unimportant. with veal steaks. To Zanuck for with the Ritz Brothers, thus Darryl breaking exiling To Gertrude Lawrence for riding down to get the keys to the city them to a kind of so tar as the better movie screens of the Siberia, in the front seat of her Rolls Royce (it rattles) with the chauffeur. And are concerned. country for remembering to wear a hat on .that occasion! To Shirley Temple for dropping only to fifth in box-office standing To Helen Hamilton, Troika’s pretty mistress, and to Mischa, its in spite of the scripts the studio has given her within the last 12 months. military for another happy season of borscht, shaslik and To the Lunts for demonstrating in “The Taming of the Shrew" that maitre, caprici- ous Muscovite entertainment.- Olsen and Johnson are not the only masters of the “Hellzapoppin' spirit. To Gardner Moore. Maxim Lowe, Barnee, Robert and others of the Olivier Shows Critics Talent Shoreham staff for giving the warmth of hospitality to such a large piece For More Than Mere Acting. of real estate. that he To Laurence Olivier, who proved to the local drama press To "Johnny" Johnson and his aides, especially Theon, for doing the ran play the horses at Bowie with the same skill that he brought to the same around the corner where Wardman sits on the hill. of Heathcliffe in wuthering Heights." interpretation To Frank Swadley, whose Carlton is such an excellent place to meet for the of Rufus Blair as ambassador To Paramount being employer screen celebrities. to the country's film editors. And Bob Denton as the boss man of its To Madeleine Carroll for the most and local newsreel staff being intelligent gracious celebrity met at the Carlton in 1939. To Deanna Durbin for being Deanna Durbin To Anna Neagle, who was the loveliest. To Frank Capra for being one of the most sincere, unaffected people To Andrea Leeds, who had enough energy to play quiz games at who ever consistently made good pictures, and the money which de- breakfast the morning she arrived to become the belle of the President's servedly comes from making good pictures. Birthday Ball. To Carter Barron, Gene Ford, Angie Ratto. Ray Bell and others of j To George Brent's agent on the same occasion for being the stuffiest the local Locw staff who facilitated this work at all times, department's functionaire of the year. even when it did not agree down to the dotting of the last “i.” (The To Vera Zorina for the year's biggest surprise, when she got up "I" never gets into the column * capital voluntarily to speak at a Civic Theater luncheon after swearing to this of To John Payette. Frank La Falce. Dan Terrell and the staff department she would hate it all her (and its) life if it even suggested Warner's, ditto. she would speak. To Hardie Meakin. Keith's little big man. another ditto. To Rudulf (Bud) Watson for being an actor who does not mind To Sam Galanty, Columbia's Washington gallant, for the best desk even a typographical error that turns a blurb blah. set that ever landed on a drama editor's bench. To orchestra leaders who play “I Didn't Know What Time It Was” To Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times and Wollcott Gibbs of in a tempo which indicates they know what waltz time is. To the child who felt so sorry for its late-working critic father that one night it put out his bedroom slippers. (One night out of 365.) To Western High School's Drama Club for being such a good Customer Not Always Right, audience, and such a quizzical one, for a drama and movie reviewer who does not relish the idea ot speaking to any kind of audience. A good He’s Close one is a God-send, however. But This Year Saroyan's “Different” Play Reviewer Finds People Are Liking Makes Audiences Like It. To William Saroyan for giving a different kind of play, “The Time Those Plays They Should Like of Your Life.’’ to people who clamor for a different kind of play. And making them like it! Account LAURELS ON As Broadway Takes To Bill and Kay Hill, who introduced this department to Somerset THEIR BROWS—Bette Davis the best actress. Robert Donat the best actor and Frank Capra the best director, is the verdict of the committee stars who looked over the Maugham, who, in turn, provided the year's most pleasant evening of of film past year. Jeffrey Lynn (up in the corner) is the star critic whose score By Ira Walfert. topped all the others. conversation. (We almost said "shop talk," but he works for a far NEW YORK. different kind of shop.) The customers haven't been making fools of themselves theater's To Father Gilbert V. Hartke, head of Catholic U. s drama customers depart- this year Nothing irritates a reviewer so much as to find the ment, for the most ambitious amateur dramatic undertaking we en- turning sucker on him and paying out money to see the things he told them Stars Turn Critics to Hand Out Laurels for the Year 1939 countered, the musical biography of George M. Cohan. they hadn't ought to. But your reviewer is only mildly irritated this year. To Oscar Doob. Loews New York Of the 10 attractions most in demand at the ticket brokers, only one isn't publicist, for the most dramatic Vote Goes to Bette Davis, Robert Donat, Frank Capra and Mr. worth the price charged. matinee of the year, the Notre Dame-Army game. ‘Goodbye Chips’ According to current information, the 10 shows most in demand for To Wendy Hiller for her portrait of Eliza Doolittle in “Pygmalion,” In Annual Poll of Cinema Personalities’ Favorites ~ Christmas are: * which gave an entirely new meaning to the phrase "elfin charm.” "Du Was a cember 10. 1939—as seen the1 1. Md. (78 >. Barry Lady. “Du Barry Was a Lady.” is a dirty To Robert Sherwood, whose best writing of the year was not “Abe By Harold Heffernan. by “Goodbye. Chips" feature nuisance in theaters. Eve: “Too Many Girls." boys and girls who act in Hollywood 2. “Mr. Smith Goes to elimination of joke dressed up beautifully, and "Too Lincoln in Illinois," but a letter to this department. (Can't we have HOLLYWOOD. : Washing- though bargain bills ta new edi- motion You must remem- ton" (77). would "Hellzapoppin" fairly Many Girls" and "Streets of Paris" an opinion of our own?) Hail the victors of 1939! pictures. throw thousands of their fel- tion i. ber. the movie actors are great movie 3. “Pygmalion" (64). low actors out of work, are routine, meaning acceptable, ar- To the, people who have not sung "Jingle Bells” on the radio The North American Newspaper they "The Man Who Came to Dinner.” fans. They don’t merely act in 4. “Wuthering Heights”- (44). whacked down the duals a rangements of pretty girls that are this Christmas. Alliance's second annual “stars turn pic- by count see 5. “Ninotchka" (43). “Life With Father." vice versa. “Hell- critics" tures: they go to scores of other of 72 to 17. Significantly, only the like melodies and To of survey has been completed “Streets of Paris." Napoleon Napoleon 'ecially to George, who make the pictures in which their 6-7. “Dark Victory" (42). stars and featured zapoppin," as you must have heard and the winners established. colleagues players who ap- place a favorite detour on the \...y Chevy Chase. 6-7. “Love Affair” (42). “Skylark.'1 time unless have appear. So they're all pretty Well pear steadily in “B" pictures cast by this you spent Just as they did one year Story.” To the nameless individual, who wishes every one would us ago, equipped to vote on who's who and 8. “Babes in Arms" (37). votes in favor of double “Philadelphia the last 20 years under a pillow, is give bills. For when the idea of the actors’ own 9. (34). “Key Largo." combina- champagne, because we do not like champagn and turn it over to him what's what in the film business.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Missions and Film Jamie S
    Missions and Film Jamie S. Scott e are all familiar with the phenomenon of the “Jesus” city children like the film’s abused New York newsboy, Little Wfilm, but various kinds of movies—some adapted from Joe. In Susan Rocks the Boat (1916; dir. Paul Powell) a society girl literature or life, some original in conception—have portrayed a discovers meaning in life after founding the Joan of Arc Mission, variety of Christian missions and missionaries. If “Jesus” films while a disgraced seminarian finds redemption serving in an give us different readings of the kerygmatic paradox of divine urban mission in The Waifs (1916; dir. Scott Sidney). New York’s incarnation, pictures about missions and missionaries explore the East Side mission anchors tales of betrayal and fidelity inTo Him entirely human question: Who is or is not the model Christian? That Hath (1918; dir. Oscar Apfel), and bankrolling a mission Silent movies featured various forms of evangelism, usually rekindles a wealthy couple’s weary marriage in Playthings of Pas- Protestant. The trope of evangelism continued in big-screen and sion (1919; dir. Wallace Worsley). Luckless lovers from different later made-for-television “talkies,” social strata find a fresh start together including musicals. Biographical at the End of the Trail mission in pictures and documentaries have Virtuous Sinners (1919; dir. Emmett depicted evangelists in feature films J. Flynn), and a Salvation Army mis- and television productions, and sion worker in New York’s Bowery recent years have seen the burgeon- district reconciles with the son of the ing of Christian cinema as a distinct wealthy businessman who stole her genre.
    [Show full text]
  • Stanley Chase Papers LSC.1090
    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6h4nc876 No online items Finding Aid for the Stanley Chase Papers LSC.1090 Processed by Timothy Holland and Joshua Amberg in the Center For Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Laurel McPhee, Fall 2005; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé and edited by Josh Fiala, Caroline Cubé, Laurel McPhee and Amy Shung-Gee Wong. UCLA Library Special Collections Online finding aid last updated on 2020 December 11. Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections Finding Aid for the Stanley Chase LSC.1090 1 Papers LSC.1090 Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections Title: Stanley Chase papers Creator: Chase, Stanley Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1090 Physical Description: 157.2 Linear Feet(105 boxes, 12 oversize boxes, 27 map folders) Date (inclusive): circa 1925-2001 Date (bulk): 1955-1989 Abstract: Stanley Chase (1928-) was a theater, film, and television producer. The collection consists of production and business files, original production drawings, posters, press clippings, sound recordings, and scripts from his major projects. Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page. Language of Material: Materials are in English. Conditions Governing Access Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page. Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed audiovisual materials.
    [Show full text]
  • A Shavefail, Checks in at Drew Field
    ~Sfff;ft!~?- ~~<~~THE$ ~~ ~ . '"'q,(;';$PW~ • • ~~ ~ h. ............. -!.~...?. VOL. 2, NO.7 Published Exlusively in the Interest of the Personnel of Drew Field Friday, April 23, 1943 Cistern Twins Reunited New.Legi$laUon Provides for National Jeffrey Lynn, Now Service huura~ce Wiih@Mf Medica~ Exam AShavefail, Checks The ECHOES is calling to the used in making Class A Allot­ attention of Drew Field military ments from pay for premiums. In At Drew Field personnel the fact that new legis- Applications should specify insur- T he tall, handsome blue-eyed lation provides any person in ac- ance and AGO Form 29 should be shavetail, not long out of the Of­ tive servic eshall be granted Na- used in m aking Class N Allot- ficers Candidate School, Fort tiona] Service Life Insurance m ents from pay . for premiums. Monmouth, N. J., did not vary without medical examination and Applications should sp'ecify ins·ur- much in appearance from any of without medical history sl atement a nee is to be effective immediate- the countless second lieutenants upon application made in writing ly , and be mailed directly to Chief who check in at Drew Field. The within 120 days from April 12, of Finance, War Department, new officer registered for assign- 1943. upon payment of the prem- Washington. D. C. ment in the Army's aircraft warn­ iums. All military personnel who have ing training units at the large This right. accorciing to the War less than $10,000 Government Army air base. Department, can be exercised not- Life Insurance will be informed Tru2, he was a bit older than: withsta.nding rejection of any immediately of their current right the average shavetail, being 34; prior application for such insur- to apply without statement of j and the name that ..he · penned on e>.nce on any ~ound wha1ev:er.
    [Show full text]
  • Official Announcement - January 26 - February 1 - 1941
    Prairie View A&M University Digital Commons @PVAMU PV Week Academic Affairs Collections 1-26-1941 Official Announcement - January 26 - February 1 - 1941 Prairie View State College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pv-announcement Recommended Citation Prairie View State College, "Official Announcement - January 26 - February 1 - 1941" (1941). PV Week. 636. https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pv-announcement/636 This Conference Proceeding is brought to you for free and open access by the Academic Affairs Collections at Digital Commons @PVAMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in PV Week by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @PVAMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ************************************************************* **************-<**¥*x***************************************** ******** PRAIRIE VIEW STATE COLLEGE ******** ******* ******* ****** "0L Q WEEKLY CALENDAR NO 17 ****** ******* ******* ******** January 26 - February 1, 1941 ******** ***********>.*-:<>,;****************************** **************** *************************** ************* *****************>.*** SUNDAY. JANUARY 26 9;00 A - Sunday School 11:00 A M - Morning Worship: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY - College Chaplain 7:00 P M - Vesper - Faculty Debate - RESOLVED: THAT TEXAS SHOULD IN­ CREASE THE TAX ON NATURAL RESOURCES Affirmative Negative R W Hilliard J 0 Hopson H E Wright R A Smith Mrs M A Sanders Miss A L Sheffield Miss T. L Cunningham, Librarian Miss C Bradley, Librarian MONDAY. JANUARY 27
    [Show full text]
  • Pennsylvania Female College in Harrisburg
    Papers Relating to Harrisburg Women At first glance this section might appear to be papers written by women of Harrisburg – but in the English tradition the Christian name Beverly was employed for males. Accordingly, the first author, Beverly R. Waugh, was not a female – in fact he named his daughter Beverlina, which was then the accepted feminized form of the name. In truth, Beverly R. Waugh is the collector and not the author of the articles presented in the first paper. The material reproduced in this volume of The Chronicle has been selected from a scrapbook kept by Mr. Waugh during his tenure as principal of Pennsylvania Female College in Harrisburg. While the scrapbook likely remained in the possession of Mrs. Waugh until her death in 1908, no one can account for its whereabouts for almost 100 years. It was purchased by the conference archives last year from a Camp Hill antiques dealer, who had recently acquired it from a collector of local memorabilia – in whose Harrisburg attic it had been stored for some unknown period of time. Hidden between the lines of the articles is a most revealing picture of the place of females in mid nineteenth century America. Following the lead article that paints a broad picture, the remaining papers present in chronological order more detailed examinations of particular Harrisburg females and their Methodist involvements. Each is based on a document housed in the conference archives. Taken together they lead the reader on a journey through the eyes of area females from the days of the earliest circuit rider to the modern era.
    [Show full text]
  • «Destry Rides Again»
    «Destry Rides Again» In the film's pre-credits opening sequence, a sign reading "WELCOME TO BOTTLENECK" is shot up. Bullets smash a whiskey bottle next to the sign and another one that is tied and hanging from the sign. [A real bottleneck is left swaying.] The camera pans right across a 'Boot-Hill' cemetery and scenes of the brawling, wild frontier town of Bottleneck, characterized by fist fights and lawlessness. The credits play, accompanied by Frank Skinner's thrilling stagecoach music, ending with a view of the LAST CHANCE SALOON. There is complete mayhem in the wicked town - raucous riders shoot their guns into the sky and gallop on horseback into the gambling bar through swinging doors. In a series of economical shots in the film's first few minutes, most of the major characters in the cast are introduced or glimpsed. A crane takes the camera up above the front porch into a dissolve through the lighted windows on the second floor, where a crooked card game is in progress. The saloon's owner is gambler and slick rogue Kent (Brian Donlevy) - his face obscured by his tilted hat, setting up a rancher/farmer named Lem Claggett (Tom Fadden) in a poker game. Kent deals himself out of the next hand after losing - a calculated move, and wanders around on the upper interior hallway of the saloon - his steely-eyed dominance and control of the saloon are evident. He hits the agitated bartender Loupgerou (Billy Gilbert) on the back of the head with a half-eaten apple, signaling him to notify his star attraction to join him upstairs.
    [Show full text]
  • Raoul Walsh to Attend Opening of Retrospective Tribute at Museum
    The Museum of Modern Art jl west 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Tel. 956-6100 Cable: Modernart NO. 34 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RAOUL WALSH TO ATTEND OPENING OF RETROSPECTIVE TRIBUTE AT MUSEUM Raoul Walsh, 87-year-old film director whose career in motion pictures spanned more than five decades, will come to New York for the opening of a three-month retrospective of his films beginning Thursday, April 18, at The Museum of Modern Art. In a rare public appearance Mr. Walsh will attend the 8 pm screening of "Gentleman Jim," his 1942 film in which Errol Flynn portrays the boxing champion James J. Corbett. One of the giants of American filmdom, Walsh has worked in all genres — Westerns, gangster films, war pictures, adventure films, musicals — and with many of Hollywood's greatest stars — Victor McLaglen, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fair­ banks, Mae West, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich and Edward G. Robinson, to name just a few. It is ultimately as a director of action pictures that Walsh is best known and a growing body of critical opinion places him in the front rank with directors like Ford, Hawks, Curtiz and Wellman. Richard Schickel has called him "one of the best action directors...we've ever had" and British film critic Julian Fox has written: "Raoul Walsh, more than any other legendary figure from Hollywood's golden past, has truly lived up to the early cinema's reputation for 'action all the way'...." Walsh's penchant for action is not surprising considering he began his career more than 60 years ago as a stunt-rider in early "westerns" filmed in the New Jersey hills.
    [Show full text]
  • Boxoffice Barometer (March 6, 1961)
    MARCH 6, 1961 IN TWO SECTIONS SECTION TWO Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents William Wyler’s production of “BEN-HUR” starring CHARLTON HESTON • JACK HAWKINS • Haya Harareet • Stephen Boyd • Hugh Griffith • Martha Scott • with Cathy O’Donnell • Sam Jaffe • Screen Play by Karl Tunberg • Music by Miklos Rozsa • Produced by Sam Zimbalist. M-G-M . EVEN GREATER IN Continuing its success story with current and coming attractions like these! ...and this is only the beginning! "GO NAKED IN THE WORLD” c ( 'KSX'i "THE Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA • ANTHONY FRANCIOSA • ERNEST BORGNINE in An Areola Production “GO SPINSTER” • • — Metrocolor) NAKED IN THE WORLD” with Luana Patten Will Kuluva Philip Ober ( CinemaScope John Kellogg • Nancy R. Pollock • Tracey Roberts • Screen Play by Ranald Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pre- MacDougall • Based on the Book by Tom T. Chamales • Directed by sents SHIRLEY MacLAINE Ranald MacDougall • Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. LAURENCE HARVEY JACK HAWKINS in A Julian Blaustein Production “SPINSTER" with Nobu McCarthy • Screen Play by Ben Maddow • Based on the Novel by Sylvia Ashton- Warner • Directed by Charles Walters. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents David O. Selznick's Production of Margaret Mitchell’s Story of the Old South "GONE WITH THE WIND” starring CLARK GABLE • VIVIEN LEIGH • LESLIE HOWARD • OLIVIA deHAVILLAND • A Selznick International Picture • Screen Play by Sidney Howard • Music by Max Steiner Directed by Victor Fleming Technicolor ’) "GORGO ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents “GORGO” star- ring Bill Travers • William Sylvester • Vincent "THE SECRET PARTNER” Winter • Bruce Seton • Joseph O'Conor • Martin Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents STEWART GRANGER Benson • Barry Keegan • Dervis Ward • Christopher HAYA HARAREET in “THE SECRET PARTNER” with Rhodes • Screen Play by John Loring and Daniel Bernard Lee • Screen Play by David Pursall and Jack Seddon Hyatt • Directed by Eugene Lourie • Executive Directed by Basil Dearden • Produced by Michael Relph.
    [Show full text]
  • Kennedy Center Education Department. Funding Also Provided by the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund
    DOCUMENT RESUME ED 381 839 CS 508 906 AUTHOR Carr, John C. TITLE "Crazy for You." Spotlight on Theater Notes. INSTITUTION John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. SPONS AGENCY Department of Education, Washington, DC. PUB DATE [95] NOTE 17p.; Produced by the Performance Plus Program, Kennedy Center Education Department. Funding also provided by the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund. For other guides in this series, see CS 508 902-905. PUB TYPE Guides General (050) EDRS PRTCE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Acting; *Cultural Enrichment; *Drama; Higher Education; Playwriting; Popular Culture; Production Techniques; Secondary Education IDENTIFIERS *Crazy for You; Historical Background; Musicals ABSTRACT This booklet presents a variety of materials concerning the musical play "Crazy for You," a recasting of the 1930 hit. "Girl Crazy." After a brief historical introduction to the musical play. the booklet presents biographical information on composers George and Ira Gershwin, the book writer, the director, the star choreographer, various actors in the production, the designers, and the musical director. The booklet also offers a quiz about plays. and a 7-item list of additional readings. (RS) ....... ; Reproductions supplied by EDRS ore the best that can he made from the original document, U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Ofi.co ofEaucabonni Research aria improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERIC1 Et This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization onqinallnq d 0 Minor charms have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points or view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy -1411.1tn, *.,3^ ..*.
    [Show full text]
  • Newsletter 14/12 DIGITAL EDITION Nr
    ISSN 1610-2606 ISSN 1610-2606 newsletter 14/12 DIGITAL EDITION Nr. 318 - August 2012 Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd LASER HOTLINE - Inh. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Wolfram Hannemann, MBKS - Talstr. 11 - 70825 K o r n t a l Fon: 0711-832188 - Fax: 0711-8380518 - E-Mail: [email protected] - Web: www.laserhotline.de Newsletter 14/12 (Nr. 318) August 2012 editorial Hallo Laserdisc- und DVD-Fans, liebe Filmfreunde! Mit ein paar Impressionen von der Premiere des Kinofilms DIE KIR- CHE BLEIBT IM DORF, zu der wir am vergangenen Mittwoch ein- geladen waren, möchten wir uns in den Sommerurlaub verabschieden. S ist wie fast jedes Jahr: erst wenn alle Anderen ihren Urlaub schon absolviert haben, sind wir dran. Aber so ein richtiger Urlaub ist das eigentlich gar nicht. Nichts von we- gen faul am Strand liegen und sich Filme in HD auf dem Smartphone reinziehen! Das Fantasy Filmfest Fotos (c) 2012 by Wolfram Hannemann steht bereits vor der Tür und wird uns wieder eine ganze Woche lang von morgens bis spät in die Nacht hinein mit aktueller Filmware ver- sorgen. Wie immer werden wir be- müht sein, möglichst viele der prä- sentierten Filme auch tatsächlich zu sehen. Schließlich wird eine Groß- zahl der Produktionen bereits kurze Zeit nach Ende des Festivals auf DVD und BD verfügbar sein. Und da möchte man natürlich schon vor- her wissen, ob sich ein Kauf lohnen wird. Nach unserer Sommerpause werden wir in einem der Newsletter wieder ein Resümee des Festivals ziehen. Es wird sich also lohnen weiter am Ball zu blei- ben. Ab Montag, den 17.
    [Show full text]
  • Greatest Year with 476 Films Released, and Many of Them Classics, 1939 Is Often Considered the Pinnacle of Hollywood Filmmaking
    The Greatest Year With 476 films released, and many of them classics, 1939 is often considered the pinnacle of Hollywood filmmaking. To celebrate that year’s 75th anniversary, we look back at directors creating some of the high points—from Mounument Valley to Kansas. OVER THE RAINBOW: (opposite) Victor Fleming (holding Toto), Judy Garland and producer Mervyn LeRoy on The Wizard of Oz Munchkinland set on the MGM lot. Fleming was held in high regard by the munchkins because he never raised his voice to them; (above) Annie the elephant shakes a rope bridge as Cary Grant and Sam Jaffe try to cross in George Stevens’ Gunga Din. Filmed in Lone Pine, Calif., the bridge was just eight feet off the ground; a matte painting created the chasm. 54 dga quarterly photos: (Left) AMpAs; (Right) WARneR BRos./eveRett dga quarterly 55 ON THEIR OWN: George Cukor’s reputation as a “woman’s director” was promoted SWEPT AWAY: Victor Fleming (bottom center) directs the scene from Gone s A by MGM after he directed The Women with (left to right) Joan Fontaine, Norma p with the Wind in which Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) ascends the staircase at Shearer, Mary Boland and Paulette Goddard. The studio made sure there was not a Twelve Oaks and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) sees her for the first time. The set single male character in the film, including the extras and the animals. was built on stage 16 at Selznick International Studios in Culver City. ight) AM R M ection; (Botto LL o c ett R ve e eft) L M ection; (Botto LL o c BAL o k M/ g znick/M L e s s A p WAR TIME: William Dieterle (right) directing Juarez, starring Paul Muni (center) CROSS COUNTRY: Cecil B.
    [Show full text]
  • 1947-05-02, [P ]
    Friday, May 2, 1947 T O L E D O U N T O N J 0 U R N A L Pape Five Award Winners In Cast of Gold win Film Samuel Goldwvn presents. “The Best Years Of Our Lives”, starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright. Virginia < ' ' *'> ’ ’ ** Mavo and introducing Cathy O’ Don neil with Hoagy Carmichael. Glady- George, Harold Russell, Steve Cockran Rom art Bohnen, Ray Collins, anfl Victor Cutler? _ _ Released through RKO Radm Pic­ A (Afincint! Hlow “Swordsman” Crew tures Inc. Directed by William Wyler t.- * Jean Porter Cast Screen plav by Robert E. Sherwood Hayworth On European Tour Hold Loral Reunion From * novel by MacKinlay Kantor H ith Jimmy Lydon Director Of Photography Oregj HOLLYWOOD — Remin­ Toland. HOLLYWOOD — Jimmy iscing Is the vogue on the set Now Showing At State Theatre Lydon has been east to play For “Doan To Earth” of “The Swordsman' at Co- By Burny Zawodny the male lead opposite Jeaa lumhia these day* and for Porter in “Sweet Gene­ good reason. .' # ‘ * a Rita Hayworth, star of Columbia’s forthcoming Technicolor Samuel Goldwyn, who had vieve” the high school mu­ On the first day Of production ■Down To Earth” arrived in New York, Saturday ihooting, been in the movie industry since sical to be produced hy Sana Larry parks, male star of the 913, certainly is no man to go •' 1■■■ Katzmaa for Columbia re- (April 12) on the first leg of a goodwill tour ef Europe in con­ Technicolor film, discovered overboard in his expectations lease. nection with the forthcoming top-flight film.
    [Show full text]