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The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.
Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.
Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.
Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.
It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??
This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.
It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.
Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.
When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.
He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.
And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.
Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.
Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

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The actor followed with Bernardo Bertolucci's 1973 film Last Tango in Paris, but the performance was overshadowed by an uproar over the sexual content of the film.
His notorious reputation has often overshadowed the depth of his influence on modern film.
For love interest, rancher's daughters, school marms and bar room maidens were overshadowed by young Latin women ( sometimes mothers ) desired by dangerous men, where actresses like Nicoletta Macchiavelli or Rosalba Neri carried on Marianne Koch's role of Marisol in the Leone film.
The film grossed around $ 50 million ( US $ in dollars ) domestically, but was overshadowed by Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop.
The studio's next release, The Great Mouse Detective, fared better in relation to its significantly smaller budget, but it was overshadowed by Don Bluth's An American Tail, another film featuring mice characters that competed directly with Mouse Detective in theaters.
The soundtrack, however, firmly overshadowed the film itself, which enjoyed little notoriety.
Powell's performance was overshadowed by what was to be the final film appearance of W. C. Fields.
It is also worthy of note that the Dorothy of the books is brave and resourceful, only crying when faced with despair, whereas the older Dorothy of the movie ( portrayed as a twelve-year-old by sixteen-year-old Judy Garland ) spends several portions of the film crying and being told by others what to do, however her fear was overshadowed by Lion's.
Rajeev Masand from CNN-IBN noted, " Despite the risk of being overshadowed by Kareena, his co-star in the film, Shahid Kapur leaves an indelible impression with a performance that is understated and mature, and indeed the perfect foil to Kareena's boisterousness.
He also believed that Deol was overshadowed by his co-stars, remarking that the film, " belongs to Abhishek first and Preity next ".
Accounts of this escape, long overshadowed by The Great Escape, were recorded in the book Goon in the Block ( later retitled The Wooden Horse ) by Williams, the book Stolen Journey by Philpot, and the 1950 film The Wooden Horse.
Davis was undergoing financial difficulties, and the need for the $ 100, 000 paycheck overshadowed her concern about making her Hollywood comeback ( her last American film had been Storm Center in 1956 ) in the role of an elderly hag.
Beaumont did not like the role of the patient Ward Cleaver much at all, which he believed had unfairly typecast him and overshadowed his many other roles in film and on television.
Although K-9 ( with James Belushi ) was released prior to this film ( exactly three months earlier ), Turner & Hooch became more popular and seemingly overshadowed its greater success, even though K-9 had a very similar plot.
Characterising him as a " tough guy at his best in the The Magnificent Seven ," Dexter's obituary in The Guardian singles out his portrayal of Harry Luck and claims he was " overshadowed " by his contemporaries: A question that comes up regularly in film trivia quizzes is to name the magnificent seven, of the 1960 John Sturges western.
" Two Mules for Sister Sara marked the last time that Eastwood would receive second billing for a film and it would be 25 years until he risked being overshadowed by a leading lady again in The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 ).
Although the film was popular, it was overshadowed by Witherspoon's more high-profile and almost simultaneously released blockbuster Walk the Line, for which she won an Academy Award.
) However, the bad publicity surrounding his alleged involvement in Thelma Todd's death hurt his reputation and have largely overshadowed his film work.
The film closes with a little note that the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest was overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge quite soon after.
The men's ice hockey team has a historic rivalry with Boston University, but, since BU left what became the ECAC Hockey conference to join Hockey East, this rivalry has been overshadowed by the more contemporary one with Harvard University, which was highlighted in the 1970 novel Love Story and its film adaptation.
Critics Rita Kempley and Desson Howe of the Washington Post also spoke positively of the film, citing the three main characters ' comical rap, the race for Peter to stop the wedding, and the relationship between Peter and Miss Lomax as the movie's most enjoyable scenes for anyone watching, although Howe also criticized the relationship between Peter and Lomax, claiming Ted Danson and Steve Guttenburg were overshadowed for the remainder of the film.

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The copy itself, including any text or illustrations, is reproduced in full color directly on a thin Mylar polyester film by a photo screen process.
The film has an adhesive on the back which permits it to be stripped onto the acrylic panels forming the sign, and also to be stripped off for replacement by new copy as required.
As used by Industrial Electric Inc., the film panels are printed one at a time, as are 24-sheet posters.
Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.
An early film by a competitor of the Wizard of Menlo Park simply showed a long kiss performed by two actors of the contemporary stage.
Overnight, for one thing, Porter's film multiplied the standard running time of movies by ten.
The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence, and the cut edge is joined physically, by cement, to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence.
Workshops are conducted by the system's audio-visual consultant for the staffs of member libraries, teaching them the effective use of film as a library service.
An Academy Award is an award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio " El Indio " Fernández.
Actrius ( Catalan: Actresses ) is a 1996 film directed by Ventura Pons.
* Alien ( film ), a 1979 film by Ridley Scott
** Aliens ( film ), a 1986 sequel by James Cameron
* Ada ( film ), 1961 film by Daniel Mann

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