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Rockland Poole, a mutual-fund manager in his mid-30s, suddenly finds himself in a room that could be his office but decidedly is not. It has all the accoutrements of white-collar work -- desks, chairs on casters, a file cabinet -- and a hospital bed where Poole must sleep each night. His food is brought to him daily by Mac, a burly man who can come and go as he pleases. Poole cannot; he has searched every square inch of the corridor outside and found no exit...
...somebody to write the words for talking pictures. And it stayed around -- the contempt for self and cinema that Mankiewicz's cable winks at. How could one be paid so much to have one's literature ground into pulp by the coarse merchants who ran the movies? In the '30s and '40s a few screenwriters, pre-eminently Preston Sturges, seized the means of production and became their own directors. The rest mostly complained about their six-figure serfdom, partly because they were so good at it. "It is as difficult to make a toilet seat as a castle window," Hecht...
...despite hardships at home, her mother put together enough money to send her to an acting academy. Before the '20s were over she was acting in the West End, and in 1932 she married a colleague, the late Jack Hawkins. She appeared in several Broadway productions during the '30s but immigrated to the U.S. only in 1940, bringing her five-year-old daughter Susan with...
...been poor. His father was one of Canada's most prominent businessmen, as well as a Member of Parliament; his mother was a Labatt, as in Labatt's beer. After making a brief bow to family sensibilities by attending McGill University, he headed south in the early '30s, to Manhattan, where he studied acting. The great George Abbott gave him his first big break and taught him the rough-and-tumble art of farce, an athletic, physical approach to his craft that he has since used in more cerebral roles. Cronyn has also picked up his share of honors, including...
Postwar demobilization is a very American idea. We have a penchant for demobilizing the day after the war is won. After World War I, we rapidly demobilized and disengaged from Europe. With no countervailing American force to contain the rise of the monstrous totalitarianisms of the '30s, the way was cleared for World...