(In 1943 when this book was published the author John MacC...)
In 1943 when this book was published the author John MacCormac supplied a necessary and potent antidote to the weariness and fuzziness of that day's thinking about war. And just like now in the present day too many Americans were starting to feel that once our survival was assured and we won the war the only thing to do was to pull out and keep clear. This psychology gains momentum with every political setback or complication involving American efforts abroad. So how can we have confidence in our country's efforts to unravel complicated political situations all over the world? Reading the positive noble view of the U.S. depicted in this book may keep Americans from supplying a defeatist answer to this question. "This Time for Keeps" is an impassioned declaration that our side is right, it's about good vs. evil, about justice vs. injustice, about democracy vs. its antagonists from left to right. The following passage describes America's part as MacCormac saw it in the world, it may sound gushy and sentimental but there happened to be millions of Service Members who were being asked and are still being asked today to die for this ideal. And maybe the ideal wasn't as golden and comprehensive as John MacCormac pronounced it to be in this eloquent valuable book, but if those Soldiers are still coming back feeling that if it's worth dying for its worth living for, then we are doing our job of shining it up.
(After a crash disfigures his face and maims his body, pil...)
After a crash disfigures his face and maims his body, pilot Oliver Bradford (Robert Young) hides from family and friends in a seaside cottage. There he befriends homely, gentle Laura Pennington (Dorothy McGuire). The two marry for companionship - until some rare magic within the cottage transforms them into ardent and beautiful lovers. Director John Cromwell's delicate, achingly romantic film is based on Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play, written in a post-World War I era of broken men returning to families who could not recognize them. When history sadly repeated itself, World War II film audiences likewise embraced a story of the transcendent power of love. The film so moved Young that he named his own California home The Enchanted Cottage.
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(Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-author of Citizen K...)
Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-author of Citizen Kane, and Nicholas Ray, director of such classics as Rebel Without a Cause, combined their talents for this intriguing psychological drama of ambition, jealousy and murder. Through mesmerizing flashbacks, the story is told of Marian Washburn (Maureen O' Hara), a once-prominent singer who begins to lose her voice. To continue her unfulfilled dreams, she coaches Susan Caldwell (Gloria Grahame), a coarse and promiscuous singer, into the big time. But then Caldwell rebels against her mentor, and we soon learn that Caldwell has been shot. Even though Washburn confesses that she pulled the trigger, the murder and events leading up to it remain a baffling mystery and tantalizing entertainment!
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(Not long after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. scrambles for ships...)
Not long after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. scrambles for ships to put to sea – ships like the dry-docked WWI destroyer Warren. An "old Noah's Ark," scoffs Lt. Gregg Masterman (Robert Taylor), a Harvard-schooled Bostonian ensconced in a cushy desk job. Care to guess who will be volunteered to be the aged ship's executive officer? The character of a callow young man who ultimately proves his worth is one Taylor had played before, notably in A Yank at Oxford and Flight Command. A stellar cast – Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan – joins him in a tale that veers into comic waters (the crew become awkward caretakers of a bevy of infants rescued at sea) before steaming full ahead into the strategies and salvos of fiery battle action in the Pacific. Taylor would actually serve as a Navy Air Corps flight instructor during the war. Lovely Marilyn Maxwell, who debuts here, would entertain troops as a member of Bob Hope's USO tours.
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The Good Fellows (1943) Original One Sheet Poster (27x41)
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Original Paramount Pictures One Sheet Poster (27x41) for the Jo Graham comedy, THE GOOD FELLOWS (1943) starring Cecil Kellaway, Helen Walker, and Mabel Paige. Adapted from a popular stage comedy written by George S. Kaufman and Herman Mankiewicz, this film tells the story of Jim Hilton (Kellaway), a small town family man who neglects his wife and kids, preferring the company of his lodge brothers in the Ancient Order of the Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana. This poster is folded and in fine condition with some distresses, small holes, good color
(United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT pl...)
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Abigail Manette (Deanna Durbin) is a woman with a questionable past who owns a sleazy nightclub and is involved in a nefarious underworld. Her husband has been incarcerated for life on charges of murder and Abigail thinks he's safely locked away, but he's actually escaped and is on a jealous warpath to find her and accuse her of infidelity, even before he can ascertain the truth. At the same time, a mysterious army lieutenant (Dean Harens) comes into her club on the rebound from a recent breakup and its clear that this love triangle may end up with either a deadly or divine conclusion. It's the hooker with a heart of gold, Christmas story of salvation and new beginnings; a heart warmer with a dark edge. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Oscar Academy Awards, ...Christmas Holiday ( W. Somerset Maugham's Christmas Holiday )
(Marquis de Marignan, a French aristocrat, philanderer and...)
Marquis de Marignan, a French aristocrat, philanderer and incorrigible flirt,
may have just made a terrible mistake when his valet discovers that among his conquests is the valet's wife, all societal hell breaks amusingly loose. - 65 minutes
Herman J. Mankiewicz was an American newspaperman, playwright, and screenwriter.
Background
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was born on November 7, 1897 in New York City, the son of Frank and Johanna Blumenau Mankiewicz. His father, who had studied at the University of Berlin, came to America in 1892 and worked up from clerk in a cigar store to editor of a German-language newspaper in New York's Yorkville section. His mother, a dressmaker, had no formal education. Mankiewicz spent his youth in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. , where his father edited the Demokratischer Wächter from 1905 until he became a teacher of Latin, Greek, German, French, and mathematics at the Harry Hillman Academyin 1910. In a household placing obsessive stress on scholarship, Mankiewicz was whipped for any underachievement at school. In 1913 the family moved to New York, where his father became a teacher in the New York public school system, and later professor of education at City College.
Education
Herman graduated from the Hillman Academy in 1912. Considered too young for college at the age of fourteen, Mankiewicz worked in a coal mine for a year as a surveyor's assistant. His duties included "rushing the growler" getting tin buckets of foaming beer for the miners with plenty of sips for himself. In 1913 Mankiewicz entered Columbia University, gaining a reputation for sloppiness of dress, constant lack of money, consumption of beer (some called him "Mank the Tank"), and quickness of mind and wit. For a time he published a humor column in the Columbia Spectator, and with a friend he wrote the 1916 Columbia Varsity Show. He graduated with honors in 1917.
Career
Mankiewicz worked as managing editor of the American Jewish Chronicle before enlisting in 1918 as an army flying cadet. He failed to win his wings, however, and joined the Marines, serving as a private first class. Demobilized in 1919, he joined the American Red Cross and went to Paris as assistant to the head of the press office, collecting stories on Red Cross activities throughout Europe. He returned to the United States in 1920. Mankiewicz found work as a correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times Sunday drama page and as a press agent for a European tour by Isadora Duncan. Mankiewicz returned to New York in 1922 and found a job on the New York World. Early in 1923 he moved to the New York Times drama department, where his chief was George S. Kaufman, just beginning his playwriting career. Mankiewicz's dream was to be a playwright himself, and he collaborated with Kaufman on The Good Fellow, which was unsuccessful, and We the People, which was never produced. With Marc Connelly he wrote The Wild Man of Borneo, which also failed. Immersing himself in the careless, collegiate atmosphere of New York in the 1920's, he blossomed as a sardonic wit and Broadway personage. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a speakeasy drinking companion of Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker, and, according to Alexander Woollcott, "the funniest man in New York. " In 1925 Harold Ross hired Mankiewicz as the first drama critic of the New Yorker, but he held the job for only a year. Other Round Table members gave only left-handed help, and Mankiewicz remarked to Ross, "The half time help of wits is no better than the full time help of half-wits. " In 1925 Mankiewicz was hired by Paramount Publix Studios in Hollywood. At Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to which he moved in 1933, Mankiewicz wrote, alone or in collaboration, The Royal Family of Broadway, The Vagabond King, Dancers in the Dark, and Dinner at Eight. He also produced the Marx Brothers films Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. He had a considerable gift for sophisticated dialogue, but his work increasingly suffered because of his deep contempt for Hollywood. Mankiewicz was then picked by Orson Welles to adapt classics for his Mercury Theater radio dramatizations. From their discussions at that time came the basic ideas for the movie Citizen Kane the life of Charles Foster Kane, a character patterned in part on newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. Mankiewicz wrote the basic script, entitled The American, with editorial help from John Houseman; Welles collaborated on the extensive cutting and polishing that ensued. Released in 1941, Citizen Kane was revolutionary in its construction, in its exploration of psychological themes, and in its camera techniques. Although the movie was partially quashed by Hearst, the script won the Academy Award for that year. It was the single time that Mankiewicz, famous for his wit but passionately concerned with political and social history, wrote a movie about his true field of interest. Citizen Kane restored Mankiewicz's career, and during the 1940's his credits at various studios included Pride of the Yankees, Christmas Holiday, The Enchanted Cottage, and Pride of St. Louis. By the latter part of the decade his health was declining and he became increasingly reclusive, plagued by insomnia and disappointment. He died of uremic poisoning in Los Angeles.
Quotations:
"We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk. We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children. "
"There are millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let thisget around. "
"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"
"In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end. "
"You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker. "
Personality
Mankiewicz was one of the first in the migration of writers, eager for fast movie money to finance an "important" future in New York, who later could not tear themselves away from the "lotus land" life and easy dollars. During the transition to sound films, he was one of the few writers in Hollywood experienced in dramatic dialogue, and he was repeatedly dispatched to New York to hire his writer friends, including Ben Hecht and Nunnally Johnson, for Paramount a project he called "The Herman J. Mankiewicz Fresh Air and Relaxation Program. " During the 1930's Mankiewicz played tennis with Greta Garbo; drank with John Gilbert, Charles MacArthur, and John Barrymore; and went to Marion Davies' costume parties at Santa Monica and to William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon on weekends. And he lost a great deal of money gambling although he was earning more than $2, 500 a week, he was constantly in debt. Mankiewicz despised himself for staying there, yet he loved the place. His ambivalence, his caustic tongue, and his procrastination earned him a reputation for unreliability. In 1939 L. B. Mayer advanced him the money to pay his debts in return for his promise to stop gambling. A few days later, raking in a pot at an M-G-M poker game, he looked up and met Mayer's eyes. He was fired.
Both Mankiewicz and Houseman always insisted that Mankiewicz was the sole author of the script and that Welles, who is credited as co-author, made only minor revisions. This controversy still continues. But it was certainly Mankiewicz who originated the famous use of "Rosebud, " Kane's dying word in the opening scene. In the script, a newsreel reporter, searching for the significance of the word, interviewed those who knew Kane intimately. Their recollections, interlaced with flashbacks of Kane's career, created a mosaic portrait of a man destroyed by his inability to love.
Quotes from others about the person
Ben Hecht wrote, "Beside Manky, the famous people among whom he buzzed all his life like a hornet or gadfly seemed pale-minded. He could puncture egos, draw blood from pretenses and his victims, with souls abashed, still sat and laughed. "
Connections
In July 1920 he married Sara Aaronson in Washington, D. C. A month later they sailed for Berlin, where the first of their three children was born.