Star-Studded "Since You Went Away" Opens
Star-Studded "Since You Went Away" Opens /avid Selznick's Latest Wm Opens at Capitol "Since You Wont Awsy," David A Selznick's seven-star-studded panorama of the home front, directed by John...
...The producer** first Holly-wood offering since "Gone With th* Wind" and "Rebecca,* it trains its cameras on the many facets of America in wartime, runs its action through eleven months >t 1943, and tells the story of an average American family, the Hiltons, and their friends...
...Sets were executed by a large and able band of artists and craftsmen headed by William Pereira, an architect of national reputation...
...The revue features vocalists Karole Singer, Gerry Larson, tha singing Cenovar cover girt, a I romantic-voiced Bruce Hayes...
...MUSIC HALL OFFERS "D 7AGON SEED" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's eagerly-awaited "Dragon Seed," stalling Katharine Hepburn, is now in its world premiere showing at the Radio City Music Hall...
...The Hilton home was built on the Selznick lot, a two-story brick dwelling, complete with seven rooms, halls, porch, furniture, bric-a brae and workable plumbing and fireolares...
...Selznick's production staff was one of the largest ever collected in Hollywood, included such names as Lee Garmes at the camera, and Max Steiner, composer of the musical score...
...The Sim co-stars Dorothy Lamour, Fred BBUafarrar and Betty Huttee...
...h^jMajeajtta^ taSete a tymphoate*'' oaataef Chopin's greatest •**%*, I H \ l<X MARK TWAIN FILM AND LOHZ ORCHESTRA NOLO OVER AT STRAND Vincent Lope* and his 30 piece orchestra and revue will re main an stage of the N. Y. Strand for a Snd weak beginning Friday, July 21...
...PARAMOUNT RILL HOLDS OVER "And ths Angels Sing" continues for s second week at the N. Y. Paramount where it shares attraction honors with an in person show headed by Perry Come and Jerry Wald and his orchestra...
...Nazimova, Albert Basserman and Keenan Wy n, Selznick conceived his production in his tradition of fabulous realism, and has adorned it with sets that are imposing, spectacular and mirror the many phases of warring America — an aeroplane hangar, a modern hospi al where the wounded are regenerated, a railroad terminal, a crowded hotel lobby, a war plant...
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...k On screen is the Werner Bros, picturisation of the life of the grest humorist, "The Adventures of Msrk Twain" starring Fredric March and Alexis Smith...
...The picture also used the services of a host of special technical expprts to advise on'military matters, wartime regulations, and contemporary subjects ranging from victory gardens and rationing, to modern psychiatriy...
...Appealing with Miss Hepburn (In the role of Jade) are Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey, Hurd Hatfield, Agnes Moorehead...
...In this home, the itory of the Hilton household unfolds, a story of a family with its father away at war, of the war-inspired activities of wife, children, and three friends, two of whom also go off to war...
...Since You Went Away," like it* two famed predecessors, also donates to screen historv another home...
...Robert Bice, Frances Rafferty, J. Carroll Naish, Henry Travers, Robert Lewis and Jacqueline de Wit...
...The cast of the picture is headed by Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Tern pie, Monty Woolley and Robert Walker, supported by a company brilliant enough to compose a cast in itself...
...Star-Studded "Since You Went Away" Opens /avid Selznick's Latest Wm Opens at Capitol "Since You Wont Awsy," David A Selznick's seven-star-studded panorama of the home front, directed by John Cromwell, ia now in premiere showing...
...In the supporting group are Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moore-head...
...Presenting its famous star in her first picture in more than a year, with a cast headed by Walter Huston, "Dragon Seed" brings to the Music Hall screen a vivid picturi-zatiou of Pearl S. Buck's memorable novel...
Vol. 27 • July 1944 • No. 30
