“The Unseen” (Movie Review-5/14/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/14/45 | A.W.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

I saved this review because I seemed to recall Mrs. Homer speaking fondly of it. Netflix doesn’t have it and TCM doesn’t have it scheduled as far as I can tell. Oh, well, here it is.

[21twelve]

Look at those names!

Dinah Shore
Humphrey Bogart
Bette Davis
Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire
John Wayne
Lana Turner
Ingrid Bergman

The golden age of film!

My mom would tell the story when they went to Europe in 1952 (I think). My dad shipped a brand new Cadillac on the QE so they would have a car. (Not too bright with the winding roads). My mom was asked several times for her autograph! (She was a looker.) She said after the first one she signed with some movie star’s name! It might have been Lana Turner.

[morphing libertarian]

Clark Gable, Carole Lombard. Spencer Tracy, Kathryn Hepburn, Paul Muni, Bobe Hope Bing Crosby. They might be giants.

[Tax-chick]

The variety of shows available to the public was astounding. Of course it’s New York, but still ...

My great-aunt’s diaries from the period talk about their going to the movies nearly every week, in rural Missouri. A film would be passed around the theaters in several little towns for a week, and the next week there would be a new one.

[Iron Munro]

The movie theater did the jobs that television and the internet do today.

Even into the 1950’s our local theater ran a double feature (an A movie and a B movie) plus a cartoon and a Movietone News reel and the admission was only 18¢ - and you could bring in your own popcorn and candy!

[Bringbackthedraft]

Looking at all the film titles, one could see were bombarded with an abundance of war time propaganda. I do remember seeing one of the films in NYC, my aunts took me to see “The Three Cabaleros”. I was also there celebrating V-E day, I have a vivid memory of hearing the PA system music coming from the miniature Statue of Liberty on Times Square. This was the song, but it isn’t the original, it was recorded years later by Jim Reeves. https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=the+ballad+of+roger+young+song&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

The other song playing was “There’s a Star Spangled Banner Waiving Somewhere”. I don’t know why but those songs stayed in my memory bank for 70 years.

[goodnesswins]

“Tergiversant”....the vocabulary in the review would stymie most people today!!