Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Film Service had been created by executive order, had no legislated authority for existence...
...Fight for Life, Ecce Homo (a film about unemployment now in production) and several shorts, WPA had provided $162,500 more...
...House Appropriations Committee found no existing law that would authorize the appropriation. Last week the bill reached the Senate. Gallantly Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas led a fight for life for the U. S. Film Service, strove to get the $106,400 restored to the bill. Senators voted it down. It looked like a fade-out for the U. S. Film Service...
...director of many a gay French cinema comedy, had a motoring smashup in Mâcon, France, was treated for his injuries by the Doctors Denis pére et fils. Recently Doctor Jean and Son Raymond took their lawyer to see Une Petite Fortune, a new Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy, based...
Forty Little Mothers, the Cantor offering, was once Le Mioche (The Kid), a charming French film comedy, though the producers of Le Mioche might not recognize their baby. For once Comedian Cantor is unusually restrained. As a worried bachelor professor who furtively fathers an abandoned boy baby in a girls' seminary, Cantor limits his histrionics to planting wet smacks on the patient infant, singing one lachrymose ditty, Little Curly Hair. Once tears trickle down his nose. But smart Showman Cantor lets cute Baby Quintanilla, and scads of leggy little schoolgirls, among whom are Bonita Granville and Diane Lewis...