Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To him the past is thrilling. Except for coeds who knit in class, nothing irritates him more than people who refuse to look back. "Anyone who thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays...
Captain Olive McKeown said: "Come to the altar. Ask God's forgiveness . . . Come on down. It's nothing to be ashamed of-it's something to be proud of . . ."
The men won nothing.
Faced with an original story that seemed, for movie purposes, to be nothing but fragments and figments, DeMille turned four writers loose on the job of working up a convincing script. They telescoped the Biblical account, invented some new sequences, tinkered with motivations, added characters, threw in some dancing girls...
But the Army came and so did the best thing that ever happened to the division: a long rest in Australia, where people get false teeth early. Australian girls couldn't believe the marines' molars were their own. "Finally, this babe with me reached over," said one marine...