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Died. Minnie Dupree, 72, blonde toast of Broadway (The Music Master, with David Warfield) in the era of David Belasco and Richard Mansfield, veteran of a 60-year stage, screen and radio career; in Manhattan...
Great Expectations. A fine Dickens story, brought vividly to life on the screen by Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues (TIME...
...sportcasting. For a while, he had an uneasy sensation that he was becoming a victim of technocracy-"merely a stooge for mechanical contraptions." But he solved that problem by insinuating himself into the telecast. Because he has to remain an offstage voice and seldom appears on the screen, he devised such tricks as calling for a cup of coffee on a bitter day and munching peanuts audibly at a ball game...
Great Expectations (Rank; Universal-International) is one more proof that the movies can make a fine, thoroughly intelligent translation of a literary classic. In Henry V, Laurence Olivier and his British associates showed for the first time how beautifully Shakespeare can be brought to the screen. In Great Expectations, Britain's Director David Lean (rhymes with keen) and associates have done just as handsomely by Charles Dickens...
...makers of Great Expectations had a magnificent story to begin with, and characters almost as magically compelling, in their peculiar way, as Shakespeare's. Yet both characters and story were plainly hard to bring to full life on the screen. The story is about young Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice, who in childhood befriends an escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds...