Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angels are four sisters of that name in Glenby Falls, N.Y. They want to help their widowed father buy a farm where he can indulge his passion for raising soybeans. Nancy Angel (Dorothy Lamour) wants to be an artist, Bobby (Betty Hutton) an ace reporter, Patti (Mimi Chandler) a Shakespearean actress, Josie (Diana Lynn) a composer. Between daydreams and quarrels they pick up spare cash by staging musical acts at a local roadhouse. There they run afoul of a transient bandleader, Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who promptly advises Cinemactress Lamour: "Let's not fight this thing...
Gaslight (M.G.M.) as a lush, lurid transcription of Patrick Hamilton's stage hit Angel Street (TIME, Dec. 15, 1941)-the story of a Victorian husband who systematically sets to work to drive his lovely young wife insane. Hollywood's husband is not quite so icily satanic, his wife not excruciatingly demoralized, as in the original. But as acted by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and directed by George Cukor, Hollywood's ace manipulator of emotional actresses and lacy decor (Camille), Gaslight is still a fierce, hair-raising, handsome piece of psychological horror...
...Skinny Wainwright's mother's side stood Grandfather Edward Serrell, who devised the "Swamp Angel"-the great 8-in. Parrott gun which was skidded across swamps, set upon piling and used to hurl 200-lb. shells into the heart of Charleston...
...earth to have got his wings in Heaven, Charlie MacKenzie (Ralph Forbes) has spectrally hugged his old haunts for 150 years. At the moment he is pleasantly taken up with an appealing village "daftie" (Playwright Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate with ghosts. From his angel wife Charlie learns that he can still crash the pearly gates if he reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course...
...Lost Angel (Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt; TIME...