Apartment for Peggy American comedy-drama film 1948 Boxoffice magazine November 1948 Jeanne Crain William Holden Κινηματογραφικά

 

Apartment for Peggy

American comedy-drama film 1948

Boxoffice magazine, November 1948

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(φωτογραφία από σκηνή της ταινίας “Apartment for Peggy” (1948) στο εξώφυλλο του περιοδικού Boxoffice, November 13, 1948).

 

 

 

 ( λεπτομέρεια από το εξώφυλλο του τεύχους )

 

 

 

 

' Apartment for Peggy '

Receives October Blue Ribbon Award

 

By Velma West Sykes

 

 

 

 

 

   ΤWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX made a winning picture in “Apartment for Peggy,” which National Screen Council members voted to be best for whole family entertainment among October releases. Thus the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award for that month goes to this delightful film which weaves a pattern of humor, pathos, romance and human companionship into the background of current housing shortages for GI campus couples.

   Jeanne Crain’s conversational “leap-frogging” in her role as Peggy is in excellent contrast to Edmund Gwenn’s speech precision as the retired professor of philosophy, and he learns about life — and death — from her.

 

   William Holden manages to earn his own audience attention as the GI who struggles for an education along with the desire to take adequate care of his wife and the baby on its way, which makes an apartment so imperative.

 

  “Apartment for Peggy” is the second Blue Ribbon Award winner for 20th-Fox in 1948, the June Award going to “Green Grass of Wyoming”.

 

   For Jeanne Crain this is the first picture in which she has played a leading role that has received the Award, but William Holden has one other to his credit, “I Wanted Wings,” for June of 1941.

   Edmund Gwenn now has a foursome of Blue Ribbon Plaques, his last being “Miracle on 34th Street” for July of last year.

   Of the cast, however, Gene Lockhart has appeared in the most Blue Ribbon pictures, this being his seventh. His last was also “Miracle on 34th Street.”

 

   Production staff honors must go to Natalie Kalmus for the number of Award pictures, and this is the fourth which she has Technicolor-directed this year.

 

   Producer William Perlberg and Director George Seaton now will have two of the much-coveted Plaques for their office walls.

 

 

 

Film Has Numerous Assets

 

   Reviewed by BOXOFFICE in the issue of September 18, this was the way the reviewer saw it in part: “If this isn’t hailed as one of the season’s outstandingly popular celluloid successes, with grosses in proportion to such acclaim, that will only be because everyone with a heart, soul, conscience and ability to laugh and cry has suddenly gone undergroimd. The film’s assets are numerous — among them Technicolor photography, a heartwarming, down-to-earth and honest story, and skilled direction by a recent Academy Award winner, George Seaton, who also contributed the script.”

 

   First run grosses as reported to BOXOFFICE from 15 of the 21 cities used to measure audience support of pictures gives “Apartment for Peggy” a rating as high or higher than 120 per cent in every city, and as high as 160 per cent and more in several. In most of the towns it has been held for at least the second week but it is bound to do as good or better business in the neighborhood and small town situations for it has that general family appeal which so many exhibitors have been demanding.

 

   Fred Eastman, professor of drama and biography at the University of Chicago, found the winning film “as humorous and heartwarming as ‘Miracle on 34th Street.’ ”

   Phil Willcox of Parents’ magazine thought it “the most delightful all-family-audience production in years,” and Mrs. George S. Graves, San Diego, state president of the A.A.U.W. contends: “A wonderful picture. The audience reaction perfect. Disregard Time (magazine) comment.”

 

 

The Cast

 

Peggy:  Jeanne Crain

Jason: William Holden

Prof. Henry Barries: Edmund Gwenn

Prof. Edward Bell: Gene Lockhart

Dr. Conway: Griff Barnett

Dorothy: Randy Stuart

Ruth: Marion Marshall

Jeanne: Pati Behrs

Prof. Roland Pavin: Henri Letondal

Prof. T. J. Beck: Houseley Stevenson

Della: Helen Ford

Mrs. Landon: Almira Session

Prof. Collins: Charles Lane

Carson: Ray Walker

Librarian: Crystal Reeves

Delivery Boy: Ronnold Burns

Jerry: Gene Nelson

Student: Bob Patton

Wife: Betty Ann Lynn

Nurse: Therese Lyon,

Nurse: Ann Staunton

Salesman:  Hal K. Dawson,

Salesman:  Frank Scannell,

Salesman:  Robert B. Williams

Boy:  Paul Frison

 

 

 

 

Production Staff

 

Executive Producer: Darryl F. Zanuidk

Producer: William Perlberg

Screenplay Director:  George Seaton

Story: by Faith Baldwin

Technicolor Color Director: Natalie Kalmus

Associate: Clemens Finley

Music: David Raksin

Musical Director: Lionel Newman

Orchestral Arrangements: Herbert Spencer, Maurice de Packh

Director of Photography: Harry Jackson, ASC

Art Director: Lyle Wheeler, Richard Irvine

Set Decorations: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott

Film Editor: Robert Simpson

Wardrobe Director: Charles Le Maire

Costumes Designed by: Kay Nelson

Makeup Artist: Ben Nye

Special Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen 

Sound: E. Clayton Ward, Roger Heman

 

 

 

 

 

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Boxoffice magazine, November 13, 1948, p. 18.

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

Jeanne Crain    in "Apartment for Peggy" (1948) 

 

 

 

 

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Boxoffice magazine, November 1948

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