Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beefy Senator Bennett Champ Clark, isolationist from Missouri who voted against the extension of Selective Service four months before Pearl Harbor, paid a token installment on a political grudge against a top-flight soldier last week. He got the Senate to postpone its confirmation of Lieut. General Ben Lear's rank...
This time no one seriously doubted that Bennett Clark, having had his swat, would have to let the confirmation slide through...
...nation's capital. Jean Arthur manages to look very prettily flustered as the patriotic tenant who rents half her apartment to one Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn). Dingle's inordinately long nose perceives that his landlady is far from satisfied with her fiance, Charles J. Pender-gast (Bruce Bennett), an effectively sickly-looking Washington bureaucrat. So Dingle sub-lets his half of the apartment to a "fine, clean-cut, high-living young man," Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). By the Hollywood law of mutual gravitation, the two are drawn together and the result is the usual ending, although a little more drawn...
...unexcelled at the art of portraying pretty young things; none of Hollywood's starlets can come within a whoop and a holler of her perfection. McCrea, whose "hand-somest pair of masculine legs" are revealed in all their pristine splendor for feminine onlookers, is strong and silent surpassingly. Bennett is good--surprisingly good in a thankless role. But the honors must go to Charles Coburn, whose portraiture of an elderly busybody is convulsingly funny while it ties the picture together. The scene in which McCrea gets his arms around Miss Arthur after five minutes of trying exceeds Hays' Office standards...
...have heard it for piano, for two pianos, for piano and orchestra, for piano and organ, for organ and orchestra, for four pianos, for accordion, and in other popularized versions. And it was only this season that "Porgy and Bess," in a somewhat stilted and unGershwinian manner (a la Bennett), entered Carnegie Hall...