Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Violent Men (Columbia) has more than its share of brutality: fires, murders, fist fights, stampedes. This time Eddie is a crippled, scheming cattle baron, the husband of beautiful, scheming Barbara Stanwyck. They have a sweet, innocent daughter (Dianne Foster) who would like to play bridle & groom with an upstanding horseman (Glenn Ford). But what will daddy say? Nothing much, since empire-mad Robinson is so dumb he doesn't even know that his wife has been inspecting the hay at close quarters with his brother (Brian Keith). Relatively unscratched at the end are Good Guy Ford and Starlet Foster...
...axiomatic in musical comedy circles that the only people who can out-gemutlich the Alt Wienese are the Hungarians, what with their chardas and flaming Gypsy spirits. So it is of little surprise that The Gypsy Baron (pedigree: by Strauss, out of Vienna) should have Hungary as a background. The film is all the more gay for the shift, with wild music, impassioned dances and soulful violins. In short, it has what is known in the trade as schmaltz. And it is great...
...Died. Baron Erik Fleming, 60, court silversmith of Sweden, architect, sculptor and painter, whose more than 7,000 elegantly wrought coffee sets, platters and vases in gold and silver won him international fame, and whose strikingly simple, mass-produced designs were reflected in household appliances in thousands of postwar homes; in Stockholm...
...unloving mates, he was always courteous and rarely complained, as they did. But to his wife, the baroness, he wrote: "I don't think I can stand it much longer." Repeatedly, Britain, France and the U.S. suggested to Russia (which shares in the running of Spandau) that old Baron von Neurath be let out of prison to die. Each time the Russians said no. Sir Winston Churchill confessed in the House of Commons: "Von Neurath has my sympathy...
...seasons in London. It is, for Coward, rather Victorian in spirit as well as in setting; it scents its sinfulness with lavender, bodices its escalades in whalebone. The story takes a long evening to unfold, but can be summarized in a sentence. A marchioness and an American rail baron pursue their eloping spouses (Edna Best and Brian Aherne), fall in love while separating the lovers, and themselves elope in turn...