Word: besse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hawks was Sir Francis Drake. In the picture, he is symbolized by Captain Geoffrey Thorpe. Sea Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish man-o'-war, carrying King Philip's ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease Queen Bess (Flora Robson) for this shocking violation of neutrality, Hawk Thorpe gives her a pet monkey and some soft words, sets out to replenish her treasury and hamstring King Philip by hijacking the Spanish gold train in Panama...
Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendor that would set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-&-true cinema materials available, The Sea Hawk is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives the best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood...
...Monica dance marathon as it passed the 200-hour mark, encouraged one of the contestants by remarking: "You don't know what it is to be tired unless you've worked for Curtiz." Big, balding, muscular Director Curtiz is married to but living apart from Scena rist Bess Meredyth. Only extravagance he permits himself on his $3,000 a week is his two-goal polo...
Among the fiery steeds that pranced off with Mazeppa were Black Bess, Flying Cloud, Toodles, and one sobersided mount named James Melville...
...Raymond Friedman Elayne Frank, New York University James L. Gamble, Jr. Penelope Ladd, Radcliffe Benjamin O. Gardiner Alice Hunsaker, Boston Samuel L. Gittler Bette Lipkin, Vassar Eliot R. Godin Petta Dine, Sargent College Frederick C. Goetz Marian Lippincott, Bradford Morton N. Gondelman Dodie Bloom, Brookline Richard Le B. Goodwin Bess Ogden, Pine Manor Morris Gray Martha Turner, Cambridge David N. Harris Ann Jo Woodward, Winchester Richard Harte, Jr. Jackie de Sieges, Vassar Fredrick B. Harvey, Jr. Pussy Cassidy, Easton, Md. William H. Haskell Virginia Grant, Weston Abram W. Hatcher Margaret Gaft, Cambridge Robert A. Hawkins Virginia Garland, Mt. Ida Peter...