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Filmdom’s Illiterates

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From Dennison Thornton, ‘Bernard Shaw Flays Filmdom’s “Illiterates”‘, Reynolds News, 22 January 1939. Dennison Thornton (b. 1909) began his career as a journalist, drama and film critic in Canada (having migrated from his native Ireland) and subsequently become publicist for several major film companies in the UK and America.

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© 1990 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Gibbs, A.M. (1990). Filmdom’s Illiterates. In: Gibbs, A.M. (eds) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05402-2_231

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