Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Curson (Warner Baxter), third-generation head of the House of Curson, swank Manhattan dress-shop, is busy whipping up a little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time...
...Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...
Engaged-Norman Selby ("Kid Mc-Coy"), 63, onetime (1896-97) welterweight champion of the world; to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 43, cousin of Humorist Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...
Bankrupt-Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Barbara, Constance and Joan; by voluntary petition, listing no assets, liabilities of $6,157, largest of which is an $800 chattel mortgage on his auto held by Daughter Joan; in Manhattan...
...Greeley, Bennett and Pulitzer never did this,'' chuckled the Mexico, Mo. Intelligencer last fortnight as it slapped a boldface banner headline across the top of its front page...