Credits: Producer, Joe Pasternak; director, Richard Thorpe; story, Erwin Gelsey, Lorraine Fielding; screenplay, Gladys Lehman; music director, Georgie Stoll; film editor, John Dunning.
Cast: Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior, Johnnie Johnston, Xavier Cugat.
© Loew's Inc.; 3Oct47; LP1271.
THIS VITAL EARTH. The Conservation Foundation in association with the New York Zoological Society. Released by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, c1948. 11 min., sd., color, 16mm. (The Living Earth Series, pt. 2)
Summary: A conservation film which shows the interdependence of plant and animal life and the consequences of man's misuse of natural resources. Includes animated drawings. For High school students and adult groups.
Credits: Director, George E. Brewer, Jr.; story, John H. Storer.
© New York Zoological Society; 6Jul48; MP3454.
THIS WAS A WOMAN. Excelsior Film Productions, Ltd., London. Released in the U. S. through Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1949. 102 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on a stage play by Joan Morgan.
Summary: A portrait of a scheming woman who dominates her family, attempts to wreck her daughter's marriage, poisons her husband, and eventually undone by her son.
Credits: Producer, Marcel Hellman; director, Tim Whelan; screenplay, Val Valentine; music, Mischa Spoliansky; editor, E. B. Jarvis.