Evening star., 1947-08-17
What's in a Name?
There's Long Life for Movies Having
Characters Audiences Recall
By Joy Carmody

The aVore Gao OF some movie people know has
applies chore picture the
Ike n 0'@''sue az fo'n a"es usually goes
Cad: So your favorite pcurep Well well we'll What
was the name of the principle male character?
Fan: don't exactly remember that you mention but
there this boy,
see was the best movie YOU ever saw In
life how could the
characters the books you enjoy in the case of the
best books forget them What
Of the hero in Wuhering Heghts"9 '.s
Fan: Heathclfe, do what
talking about!
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test not the effective thing sponsor
but he does have point that Hollywood proved
case of its most enduringly successful works.
The most successful of of Gone With
on display here After eight and than $2o0oo worth
of customers still capacity audiences
weather which followed opening Thursday
at the box office BY fairly well
there because of Clark Gable and vvsn Leigh rather
Scarlet oHara and Rhett Butler large percentage of those
the house. and in the waiting young
conscious of Miss Lgh actress They have heard
Scarlet however hconal dtaf history
America is dramatically real than that Betsy Clara
Barton and score OF others who actually lived heroic lives
Miss Mitchell Responsible.
1t Margaret Mitchell Atlanta the original
assured the Of the motion picture which has made
than other which having fabulous popularity
time reappears She this life giving living
characters ndenhnab humans whose experiences passions joys
and audiences could share.
Miss Mitchell characters
merely the scarlett Rhe Ashley
Mane but of dozens of lesser ranging from father Gerald
oHra through Belle Waiting These all powerfully played
the picture which produced
discrimination. underneath they powerfully written
competent
Leigh, Gable the late Leslie Howard Olivia de Haviand Thomas
Mitchell, etc.
They
happily remained human afterward.
Even Crosby an
interesting apply-if
has nothing better doto best pictures the and to Academy
outstanding it
effective author lacks the significance
attaches to it, is not bad while the less minutes
Of humid day.
take for example the character portrayed by Bng
Crosby his prizewnning Going Way personality in
Hollywood absorbing the creation author
obiteraticn-but with marvellous profits
that writer might think of his character before
inrsng There those who will that not
resist Crosby which it about close to the unchal
lengeable as truth come
Yet between the the written by Leo McCresry and the
left definitely that
the picture will fail recall that the priests
Chuck OMalley.
Tracy Won for Manuel
classic readily eerrable many
library Shelf Captains Courageous role of Spencer
Tracys Academy victories that of the fisherman Manuel
Even drama and movie reviewer who encounters
hctona scarcely remember mis-
Philadelphia Story" his
The fellows Mike this department is going to have to
lot Of words starting today
amusing nothing when leaps back the
performance Rebecca realizes that
character she played in that girl identified She
male acting went to Fredr March for
his Stephenson The Best Years of Our Lives And
should have trouble recalling that Joan Crawford got
year before for that woman, Mildred Pierce.