Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margaret's long-awaited 25th birthday (after which she presumably can marry whom she pleases without the Queen's permission) had come and gone to the accompaniment of such impertinent tabloid headlines as COME ON, MARGARET and PLEASE MAKE UP YOUR MIND. All the proper British papers condemned such improper journalism. But the surprising fact in the whole situation was how carefully the respectable papers, without being so vulgar as to mention Townsend's name, had kept their readers up on the news. They did so by a sudden rash of articles about the archaic Royal Marriage...
...night late in 1944, when the Zane put in at San Pedro for repairs, Lieut. Wouk and a few fellow officers went out on the town. After all the bars had closed, one of the men remembered a birthday party being given for the boss of a file clerk he knew. "So we all barged in. I made a date with one of the file clerks for lunch the next day. All through lunch the girl raved about her boss, this beautiful, witty, talented creature. Naturally I went back to her office to take a second look, and I made...
...thinks now that part of Herman's appeal for her was that he made her see "that one didn't have to be a stupe to be religious." When Herman went back to sea, Betty Brown began studying Judaism, and a year later, on her 25th birthday, became a Jewish convert. Betty's Hebrew name is Sarah Batya: Wouk picked Sarah, and Batya (chosen for its resemblance to Betty) means "daughter of God." When Herman broached the idea of marrying Sarah, "Mama thought the end of the world had come," but "Grandfather understood...
...daughter, has become the unhappy parent of the five boys. In an effort to revive the prosperity that was Trezignan's when the quints were babies and the glory of all France, a committee decides to round up the brothers for a gala celebration of their 40th birthday...
Eventually, the quints are reunited with Papa Saint-Forget at the big birthday party, and the film winds up in fine farcical style with an ending that is obvious yet surprising, tickling credulity while taxing it. The film has been subtly directed by Henri Verneuil, handsomely produced by Raoul Ploquin, admirably helped with a good supporting cast. But Fernandel is a Judas goat who leads every minute of Sheep to its zany consummation. With the slightest nuances of his elastic face-a leer, a bucktoothed grin, a cocker-spaniel look of sadness-he proves that...