Word: belinda
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Producer Jerry (Johnny Belinda) Wald and Scripter Ranald MacDougall have taken plenty of liberties, but that should not offend Hemingway fans who recognize that To Have and Have Not is one of the master's lesser works. The script reshuffles characters and incidents, creates new ones, even switches locales (from the Florida keys and Cuba to the California coast and Mexico). In reshaping the novel, it softens some cutting edges. But the story is still tough, violent and essentially true to the book's central figure: a rugged individualist, desperately down on his luck...
Ever since RKO laid down $150,000 for Producer Jerry (Johnny Belinda) Wald's Warner Bros, contract last June, Hollywood had been expecting something supercolossal out of the deal. Stretched out over two months, the negotiations between RKO's Howard Hughes and the producing team of Wald and Norman (The Big Hangover) Krasna kept Hollywood gossips atwitter with speculation. Last week, when RKO finally announced its big deal, the effect was almost as shattering as advertised...
Cinemactress Jane Wyman, who just won Britain's annual Picturegoer's award for her performance of a deaf-mute in Johnny Belinda, told readers of Cosmopolitan magazine that women talk too much: "A girl does not lose dignity by silence. She loses it by talking for the obvious purpose of just saying something...
...irrelevantly titled script gets no help from Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco's studied straining for effects. Example: in Garfield's deathbed scene, a nurse gratuitously draws a window shade so that a shadow can fall over his face. Nor do the picture's hand-me-down roles make for good performances. France's Actress Prelle (formerly Presle), whose delicate playing was a major asset to Devil in the Flesh, has been transformed by more than a change of spelling. She is unimpressive in a role that makes her lift a wan voice in three interminable...
...part of Aeneas makes the best use of James Perrin's good voice. Ruth Beaver, who stepped in to sing Belinda at the last minute, and Anna Shackford make their duct, "Fear no danger to ensue," the loveliest aria of all. Malcolm Holmes has unusual success in getting the very most out of his able orchestra and chorus. Most exciting of all is Judith Haskell's choreography...