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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold...
...tells of the crucial year during which Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner) ceases to be a child. It is a year during which Francie learns that her charming, drunken, incompetent father (James Dunn) may be dearly loved, but not indiscriminately worshipped. She develops, and overcomes, a stony hostility towards her bitter, pennypinching mother. She endures her father's piteous death and-in a bold, overloaded sequence-watches her mother writhe in childbed. Through such experiences, and with the help of a kind teacher, she begins to transmute her weakness for fantasy-building into the tempered imagination of a writer...
...Peggy Ann Garner, a lovely child, is perfectly cast as the plain-pretty, primly sensitive little heroine. Dorothy McGuire (Claudia), though much too young to play her mother, again proves herself one of the most accomplished young U.S. actresses. But the standout of the picture is ex-star Jimmy Dunn as the weak, gallant father. Publicity writers did not exaggerate, for once, when they called his performance "the most sensational comeback in years...
...patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs only a few weeks to set all the members of the household...
...Ann Arbor, Mich...