Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These details, corroborated by other correspondents did much to explain the bog-down of Russia's would-be Blitzkrieg. What possessed Joe Stalin to hurl such cannon fodder at the well-trained Finns could only be guessed. Perhaps he thought cannon fodder could win. Perhaps he is trying to wear down Finnish resistance with inferior troops, saving his best troops to mop up. In any case, by this week fresh thousands of Russians had been thrown into battle on three fronts, attacking the Finns day & night, in wave after wave, trying by sheer force of numbers to beat down...
...Their love," says a friend, "is the most beautiful thing I have ever known." Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier spend most of their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...
Though Clark Gable taught Vivien Leigh to play backgammon, and never won a game from her, they were not the best of friends. Director Fleming and Cinemactress Leigh differed over the interpretation of Scarlett, to which Fleming wanted to restore the "guts" he thought George Cukor had taken out of it. Vivien...
Meantime there was interminable dissatisfaction with the script. Hours were wasted while it was written on the set. Fleming confessed to a friend in the cast that at one point he thought of driving his car off a cliff he was passing, and finally went to bed for a week while M.G.M. Director Sam Wood (Good-Eye, Mr. Chips') carried...
...Picture. No great shakes as literature, the novel had been dropped on the floor by most literary critics as soon as it dropped in their laps. They thought its love story a bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy. The destruction of the South's civilization in the War between the States, told as the case history of two plantation families, the red-blooded O'Haras and the blue-blooded Wilkeses, had been better told before. The overlapping loves of Scarlett O'Hara for Ashley Wilkes, Rhett...