Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First she nicknamed him "Scoop"; then she named him Harve Bennett-because it sounded like a byline. Before he started school mother Kitty had taught him to recite by heart the names of all the U.S. presidents. When he was ten, she marched him down to Chicago's station WLS. For the next five years, Harve was a Quiz Kid, one of the best. He made more money (about $20,000) than any Kid except Dick Williams...
...film's quartet of young lovers-who pair off wrong in the beginning and eventually have to be reshuffled-are Jeanne Grain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell and William Eythe. More mature romantic types are played by Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish and Walter Brennan. The plot works hard to prove that the course of true love rarely runs smooth. No up-to-date writer of movie fan mail will be greatly surprised to learn that Cornel Wilde (his studio's male champion receiver of fan letters) gets a last-reel embrace from Jeanne Grain (fan mail runner...
...late Composer Jerome Kern's final movie chores before his death in 1945). No melody is bellowed from a stage or smothered in a big production number. Every song is tossed off, impromptu style, by whatever talent happens to be standing around at cue time. Even Constance Bennett, who presumably never took a singing lesson in her life, has a fling...
...slippery streets where the housewife must change white window curtains at least once a fortnight . . . / For this it exists-that you may drink tea out of a teacup and toy with a chop on a plate. . . . It is England in little, lost in the midst of England. . . . -Arnold Bennett...
Congressman Augustus W. Bennett of New York, back from Washington with his wife & three children, lacked the heart to evict the tenants to whom he had sublet, instead moved in with a friend. The hardship was endurable: in Utilitycoon John Wilkie's home, the Bennetts got "eleven or twelve" spare rooms...