Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago last August, a slight, 18-year-old California ranch hand named Billy Rupp committed an appallingly brutal murder. He cornered a 15-year-old baby sitter named Ruby Ann Payne in the television room of his boss's Orange County home, slugged her with a hammer and then shot her twice with a .22 rifle. He was found cutting the dying girl's clothes off with a pair of scissors. He fled, was captured, tried, found sane, and sentenced to die this month in the gas chamber at San Quentin Penitentiary...
Appointment in Honduras (RKO Radio) is a problem picture. The problem: if Ann Sheridan, with nothing on her back but some translucent yellow nightclothes, is abandoned in a Central American jungle with six hot-blooded men, can the material sustain the stress of the situation...
...true, is Ann's husband (Zachary Scott), but he is a weakling, and probably couldn't even uphold her shoulder strap in an argument. Four others, escaped convicts, are led by a hard-breathing type (Rodolfo Acosta) whose fondness for silk has nothing to do with its denier. Only the sixth man (Glenn Ford) can keep him from fingering the stuff, because only Ford knows the way through the jungle to safety from the agents of a revolutionary junta who are dashing in pursuit...
Putting a red wig on Katherine Grayson helps to hide her usual insipid manner. If she is not spirited enough to be a convincing shrew, however, she does seem ill-tempered while kicking about the stage in "I Hate Men." As Kate's younger sister, bombastic Ann Miller is wisely given the song, "Too Darn Hot." And in the show-within-a-show, Miss Miller taps through "Tom, Dick, and Harry," one of those songs typical of Porter--unimportant in his score, good enough to be a show-stopper anywhere else. Regrettably, Miss Miller must share. "Always True...
...YOUR WONDERFUL NOV. 9 STORY [ON THE RADIO-TV SHOW "MY LITTLE MARGIE"]. ALL OF US WERE VERY THRILLED, ALTHOUGH MY THREE SONS, PHILLIP, PETER AND PAUL, RAISED A FEW OBJECTIONS. THE BABY WHO APPEARED IN THE PHOTO WITH ME WASN'T MINE BUT SIX-MONTH-OLD DEBORAH ANN FARRELL (NO RELATION TO CHARLEY), WHO WAS FEATURED ON ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS. I CERTAINLY DIDN'T MIND, AND AM SURE DEBORAH ANN DIDN'T, BUT MY BOYS SEEMED TO RESENT AN INTRUDER...