Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Felton) who happens to be sheriff of Petersburg, Florida, and has comfortably got himself into a position where he can run the politics of the town. He knows all about everybody in town, the way sheriffs do in small towns, and he's got the goods on everybody: Act I shows that...
...Act II forgets it and gets to talking about a stray cat from a carnival pitch, a good-looking girl, with a hard voice, named Lane Ballou (Judith Parrish). She gets involved in Semple's machinations and winds up first in the country prison farm, then in the local house of ill repute. The girl's part is not well played, and accenting it makes "Flamingo Road" frequently border on standard melodrama...
...settings are attractive, its minor characters well drawn. With some blue pencilling in the second act, and perhaps a change of cast in the spot mentioned, the cast of "Flamingo Road" should find its tropical worsted and gabardine quite comfortable on Broadway in the summer time...
...Jackson Park Theater could. The four well-heeled sons and daughters of Millionaire Builder Edward I. Bloom, who own and operate the theater, started suit in 1942 under the antitrust act. They claimed that they could not bid on first-run films in a free market...
...reasonably content with her fate, her high place in fan-magazine popularity polls, her standing as a kind of female counterpart of Van Johnson, and her salary (about $750 a week). Her next picture: Two Sisters from Boston, as a sister to Singer Kathryn Grayson. Her modest ambition: to act like Margaret Sullavan...