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...Wonderful Life (Liberty Films; RKO Radio) is a pretty wonderful movie. It has only one formidable rival (Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives) as Hollywood's best picture of the year...
While Frank Capra was still wearing Signal Corps eagles, he began to discuss independent production with Samuel J. Briskin, onetime vice president of RKO and Columbia. Early in 1945, Liberty Films was incorporated. Briskin took on the job of executive management, leaving Capra free to do all the details of picture making-from story selection to final film editing. With the machinery set up, it seemed a pity not to ask in a couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make...
Liberty, which will distribute through RKO, plans at least one picture a year from Capra, Wyler and Stevens. The company's published credo includes some sensationally un-Hollywooden notions. If its talented producer-directors can live up to these intentions, moviegoers are in for a glorious...
...Chanticleer, "of all the publicity about Disney and his team of whimsical technicians, sailing here on the Queen Elizabeth...." When Snow White's creator finally arrived, Britain's press was waiting at a lavish combination cocktail party and press conference at the Savoy, paid for ($400) by RKO...
...Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) gives Hollywood its cleanest fall, to date, in its wrestle with postwar problems. It is a big (2 hr. 45 min.), shiny, star-studded show that should appeal to practically anyone who can be lured inside a movie theater. Producer Goldwyn, cheerfully shooting the works on as glittery a collection of scripting, directing, acting and technical talents as $3 million could buy, has bought himself a sure-fire hit-with a little to spare. Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire...