Word: bella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solitaire Man," a screen drama adapted from the play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, directed by Jack Conway and presented by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer at the Loew's State Theatre with the following cast: Oliver Herbert Marshall Mrs. Hopkins Mary Boland Wallace Lionel Atwill Mrs. Vail May Robson Helen Elizabeth Allen Bascom Ralph Forbes Mrs. Peabody Lucille Gleason Mr. Peabody Robert McWade...
...published an article, "Matches Made in the Heavens,'' proving that the aerial wedding stunt is something like 100 years old. Publicly-loving couples of the 19th Century used to get married in balloons decked with satin, festooned with ribbons and banners. Historians of these phenomena are Mrs. Bella C. Landauer, Manhattan bibliophile and only important woman collector of aeronauticana, and Harry Bischoff Weiss, associate editor of the American Book Collector...
When the War came Bob had nowhere else to go. He worked so hard as a soldier, did so well that he was finally promoted to major, put in command of a Negro battalion, all venereal cases. Solace in these trying times was Woman No. 7, Bella, lusty wife of a shriveled colonel. Demobilized, Bob went back to San Francisco, married Julia and settled down. Then Bella appeared again, lured him away. But when she took to drink he was disgusted with her. Bella, creature of impulse, shot him in the stomach. The nurse at his deathbed was none other...
...stage version of Clear All Wires, by Samuel and Bella Spewack, ended with an alliance between Buckley Joyce Thomas and a pretty female correspondent. The cinema makes this more effective by showing a newspaper headline-"Mrs. Buckley Joyce Thomas captured by China bandits''-which shows that Thomas is still up to his trick of faking stories. A more important change-making Buckley Joyce Thomas the hero of a farce instead of the butt of a satire-is less fortunate but three crack performances (Lee Tracy as Thomas, James Gleason as his secretary, Eugene Sigaloff as Prince Alexander) help...
...martyr of herself to no good end; she could have told Rachel her favorite granddaughter, many a sad, true thing about what was ahead of her. But Louisa always refrained. She said what she thought would help: when she really wanted to talk she talked to herself or to Bella, the maid, who wanted to get married but was so set on it she scared all the men away. By some talent worth any amount of cleverness, Authoress Whipple has made old Heroine Louisa the kind of human being that human beings instinctively, almost unanimously admire. " 'Mmmm,' said...