Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...film was shown to the trustees and heads of committees of the New York Academy of Medicine, a large number of whom brought their wives...
United States Film Service...
Many a U. S. Senator indignantly criticized last year's film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, said it was artificial, unreal, undignified, and phony-in short, not at all the way U. S. Senators really act. Last week the entire U. S. Senate in real life played out a political comedy that was artificial, unreal, undignified and phony...
White-haired Lawyer Walter Gould Lincoln, eighth cousin of Abraham Lincoln, asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Henry M. Willis for an injunction to halt cinema showing of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (TIME, Feb. 5). His objection: the film gives the impression that his cousin, who died 75 years ago, was "lazy, shiftless, vacillating and had no ambition...
...this has been transformed by the magic eye of the camera and the Hollywood touch. As a film, The Primrose Path has become a problem picture with false notes from Steinbeck. Grandma (Queenie Vassar) still likes it carnal, is still a coy and bawdy frump, still gets...