“Raffles,” “Invisible Stripes” (Movie Reviews-1/13/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 1/13/40 | Frank S. Nugent, B.R.C.

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“Invisible Stripes” trailer

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Reviews – 1-2
Screen News Here and in Hollywood – 2
‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’ Voted Best of 1939 – 2
Joan Bennett Wed to Walter Wanger - 3

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1939 was a very, very good year for movies. It has never been equaled.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wanger
“”...in 1940 he married Joan Bennett with whom he remained married until their divorce in 1965. They had two daughters, Stephanie (born 1943) and Shelley Antonia (born 1948), and Wanger adopted Bennett’s daughter, Diana, by her marriage to Gene Markey. In 1950, Bennett signed with MCA agent Jennings Lang. In 1951, Wanger shot Lang after believing him to be having an affair with Bennett. Wanger’s attorney, Jerry Giesler, mounted a “temporary insanity” defense and Wanger served a four-month sentence at the Castaic Honor Farm two hours’ drive north of Los Angeles. The experience profoundly affected him and in 1954 he made the prison film Riot in Cell Block 11.””

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911137/bio
‘’In 1951 Wanger was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of talent agent Jennings Lang. Lang was the agent of Joan Bennett, then Wanger’s wife, and Wanger discovered the two of them were having an affair. He caught them in the act, and wound up shooting Lang in the groin.””

[Homer_J_Simpson]

1939 was a very, very good year for movies. It has never been equaled.

If "Invisible Stripes" had been from '39 instead of '40 it would have lowered the average. Watched the Netflix version last night with Mrs. Homer, who called it "a dog." I thought it was interesting enough, from a historical perspective. I don't care that much for Bill Holden in his later movies, like "Bridge on the River Kwai." he just seems too old for the roles. When he was actually younger, like with "Golden Boy" last year and "Invisible Stripes" it works better. I guess he is right in "Sunset Boulevard."