Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cinemactress Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, veteran of two broken marriages, a half-hearted suicide try, long sieges of nervous illness, married Agent-Producer Sid Luft. When it seemed that a star had died, Luft resurrected her, put her back on her feet in big-time vaudeville (audiences at Manhattan's Palace and London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because...
Clearly he must be stopped. The FBI (Frank Lovejoy) moves in, but the FBI these days, as every moviegoer has reason to believe, is more interested in getting its woman than its man. Agent Lovejoy keeps putting the arm on the counter girl (Terry Moore) instead of on the spy, which leaves Slob with nothing to do, through most of the picture, but make sandwiches. And yet, Actor Marvin, who is easily the most repulsive object that Hollywood has dug up in recent years, is such a skillful performer that when he starts hacking away at a bacon-lettuce...
...pleasantly goofy travesty of the olden daze into which Hollywood falls so often and so profitably. Danny is cast as a song-and-dance man at the court of a wicked king (Cecil Parker), but in reality Danny is nobody's fool. He is the secret agent of the Black Fox, a nobleman who hides in the forest like some robbing hood. With him hides the true king, still an infant, for whom the Black Fox plans to seize the power...
...McCarthy and other Republican bigwigs to plot Red-hunting strategy. Rauh did not even question Hughes's report that McCarthy kept an arsenal of Lugers and submachine guns in the basement of the Senate Office Building. Rauh testified that he also agreed to pay "expense money" for an agent named Bill Decker...
...Sydney slum suburb of Redfern, Mary Milner fell on her knees as she heard the number read out over the radio: it was that of a ticket shared by her husband, a $42-a-week glassworks inspector, the local baker, a manufacturer, a bootmaker, a bookkeeper and a news agent. Said Joe Milner: "It comes sudden." Said the baker: "Now I'll put some real dough in my bread...