Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Joseph Gotten in Portrait of Jenny...
Test by Witch Doctor. The words of the Curé d'Ars had set young Suzanne training herself to be a missionary. She used family pull for permission to attend lectures at a medical school, where she hid behind a screen so that the other medical students would not know a female was present. She spent two years nursing soldiers in the filth of the Crimean War. Then, still in her early 20s, she met a French missionary bishop on his way back to New Zealand. Suzanne decided that the time had at last come to leave home...
...soon as the title of the movie is flashed on the screen, Philip Green's music begins with a beautiful theme that continues throughout the film. It is a simple, warm, and tender melody-just like the movie...
Humphrey Bogart is currently chasing across the Metropolitan screen at a speed substantially better than that of sound; unfortunately the rest of the cast has trouble keeping up this strenuous pace. Hence "Chain Lightning" is only an average motion picture...
...industry's oldtimers, balloting separately for their silent-screen favorites, again picked Chaplin and Garbo, named Griffith as both director and producer, and his The Birth of a Nation as the best movie. In the sound-film category, G.W.T.W. won again hands down; Samuel Goldwyn and William Wyler, the makers of The Best Years of Our Lives, won the producers and director's laurels. Spencer Tracy nosed out Sir Laurence Olivier as the best actor. Best sound-film actress: Ingrid Bergman...