Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...minute, moves the bed back & forth about 16 one-thousandths of an inch with every heartbeat. Connected to a powerful spring at the foot of the table is a tiny mirror. The mirror amplifies this motion 8,000 times. The magnified motion is recorded on a moving photographic film...
...film exchange districts; 3) arbitration boards (paid for by distributors) will sit in each of the districts to settle squabbles, police the decree...
...dialog is as seasoned as the film's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, who was turning out its jerky ancestors in 1913. Veteran cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine...
...Austrian pre-war court life, quite familiar now to fans long exposed to the Viennese nobility, seem new only in a simpler, more personalized view of Franz Josef (Jean Worms), the scheming Prince Montenuovo (Aime Clariond) and other appendages of the state and social hierarchy. But historically, the film-a logical sequel to 1937's teary, highly successful Mayerling-submits the suggestion that Franz Ferdinand's and Sophie's double assassination at Sarajevo was more than the accidental success of a Bosnian anarchist; that Austrian ministers, frightened by the Archduke's democratic leanings, purposely...
Five years ago he emigrated to European film studios, where he has throbbed feminine hearts in English, French and Italian pictures. Biggest asset of Cinemactor Lodge is his perfect mastery of these tongues. Says he: "We think it is cute here to have an accent, but not the French." Too Many Girls (RKO Radio) is Broadway Producer-Director George Abbott's faithful reconstruction of his gay stage hit of last season about football and females in a Southwestern college. With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short...