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...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in an expensive Technicolored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel about poor folks in Florida's scrub country (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a costly, elaborate, Techni-colored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' simple yarn about the Florida scrub country (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...over the characters and their emotions. The boy Jody is well played by a twelve-year-old Tennessee schoolboy named Claude Jarman Jr. His father, Penny Baxter (described by Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Inside its first cover (Montana's Fort Peck dam, by Margaret Bourke-White), the 225,000 charter subscribers and 200,000 newsstand buyers found picture stories of King Edward VIII, the black widow spider, Robert Taylor, and Spain in civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Span of LIFE | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...George Brent) might easily be confused (reasoned Gallup testers) with the drug which whodunit addicts know as "deadly nightshade." After considering and discarding Beautiful Lady, the film's manufacturers have settled on Temptation. ¶ Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett) was temporarily retitled Without Honor, is now definitely known as The Macomber Affair. ¶ Britain's Producer Sydney Box, after buying a current London stage play, hastily registered the title, Dear Murderer, and notified the Johnston Office. Hollywood has regretfully informed Producer Box that Dear Murderer conflicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What-You-May-Call-lt | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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