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Word: ava (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ava Nell Cogburn of Lexington, Ky., the return of her first husband, Sergeant Jimmie Cogburn, posed only a legal problem. Though she was "surprised and happy" to hear of Cogburn's release, 24-year-old Ava Nell frankly prefers her second husband. Farmer James Hern, whom she married two years after Cogburn was reported missing and presumed dead. Ava Nell, who has a six-year-old son by her first marriage and a month-old daughter by the second, hopes to divorce Cogburn, remarry Hern and keep both children. In Korea newly freed Jimmie Cogburn, who had joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Switches | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Ride, Vaquero! (MGM) makes the old horse operas on TV look good. It takes some of Hollywood's silkiest purses and, without half trying, promptly and efficiently turns them into sow's ears. It has a beautiful star (Ava Gardner), yet somehow manages to make her seem drab, and a basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Frank, Mary Elizabeth Fremd, Judith Friedberg, Marcia Gauger, Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith, Zona Sparks, Frances Stevenson, Jean Sulzberger, Yi Ying Sung, Eleanor Tatum, Paula von Haim-berger, Marilyn Wellemeyer, Joan Wharton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Actor-Director Gene Kelly left the U.S. 18 months ago to make movies in Germany and England. Claudette Colbert went off to England and Italy. Clark Gable and Ava Gardner made a movie in Africa, Gregory Peck in Rome. Gary Cooper's cinemactivities took him from Samoa to Mexico and Europe. Kirk Douglas completed a film in Israel, then went to Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Through the Loophole | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...Prodigal (M-G-M), with Ava Gardner and Vittorio Gassman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trend | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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