Word: stromberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices of three bestselling models. Next day the industry buzzed with reports that RCA was about to bring out a set with a 16-inch metal viewing tube that would give twice as big a picture as the ten-inch tube used in most sets. Emerson and Stromberg-Carlson were expected to follow suit. The reported price for the RCA set: around $500, or $195 less than U.S. Television's slightly smaller (15-inch...
Sally (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey; book by Guy Bolton; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. and William Berney) constitutes almost as aromatic a memory of the Ziegfeld era as the Follies themselves. Anyone seeing it on Broadway last week must have guessed, if he did not know, that it had once been a great hit (1920-35). But though Sally still has an air, it shows...
Dishonored Lady (Stromberg; United Artists) features Hedy Lamarr, John Loder (Miss Lamarr's real-life husband) and Dennis O'Keefe in a highfalutin piece of problem-nonsense designed to wow women matinee-goers. Students of movie (and audience) morals may be interested...
...Strange Woman (Hunt Stromberg-United Artists), from a drugstore novel by Ben Ames Williams, takes its title and text from Scripture...
...Front Page (by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. & Thomas Spengler) is still, after 18 years, a good show. Last week it proved it the hard way-by withstanding a half-botched production. Despite rather limp staging and several performers who seemed in the wrong roles or even in the wrong profession, Hecht's and MacArthur's rowdy salute to their Chicago newspaper days has brash, improbable life and gaudy, slapdash color...