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Conventional M-G-M also grabbed some of the most unconventional talent in the business: there would be a Preston Sturges original for Clark Gable, a comedy by Garson Kanin, and Quo Vadis?, a mammoth epic to be shot in Italy by John Huston. But there were also plenty of safe, sumptuous projects along the more familiar M-G-Model, e.g., Annie Get Your Gun, the Broadway musical, a sequel to Mrs. Miniver, and what was described as an "adult" love story for Lana Turner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Skies | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Whispering Smith* (Paramount) is a standard horse opera, in Technicolor, full of fights, gunplay, chases, and the wholesome passion of a clean-cut Ladd (Alan) for a Good Woman (Brenda Marshall). The complicating fact is that Brenda is married to Alan's old friend (Robert Preston). But Preston develops a taste for too much liquor, too many women and two evil companions (Donald Crisp and Frank Faylen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Myles Huntington took a goal-mouth pass from his left wing, Tom Moseley, and made it 4 to 1. For the next ten minutes, while the crowd of some 4000 roared excitedly, Harvard rushed the cage repeatedly, and with 15 seconds to go in the period Lew Preston took a pass from Coulter and scored...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Loses To Big Green In 4-3 Battle | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

Second Period: Scoring-Kerivan (Crowley), 4:10; J. Riley (W. Riley), 7:26; Huntington (Moseley), 11:58; Preston (Coulter...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Loses To Big Green In 4-3 Battle | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

Both teams will be "up" for this one Dartmouth flattened Princeton 12-2 Saturday, while the varsity shut out Army, 11-0. The Indians are in perfect shape, and Coach Chase will have the services of all his previously injured men--Garrity, Jock Carman, Preston...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Faces Dartmouth In Crucial Arena Game | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

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