Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river at Nuevo Laredo, with 17 bathrooms, a swimming pool, five-car garage and three bars. For miles around, everyone knows that the house belongs to Chito Longoria, eldest (46) of the five Longoria brothers, who have done more than anyone else to make the once-dry lands blossom...
...overheat. Major Sebille's wingman radioed him to turn back. "I'll never make it," the C.O. answered calmly, "I'm going back and get that bastard." Then, with all six guns blazing, Sebille dived straight into the Communist column; his plane exploded in a blossom of flame...
...Ferber 25 years ago and as a Broadway musical hit a year later, has steamed across the screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never has Show Boat seemed so filled to the scuppers with corn...
...movie is hardly more fortunate in its casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill...
When Captain Fisby agrees to accept a couple of native "souvenirs," and they turn out to be two little geisha girls named First Flower and Lotus Blossom, he thinks his career is cooked. But the men of his village, usually appalled at the prospect of hard work, are so charmed by the geishas that they enthusiastically pitch in to build them a proper teahouse. To do so, it is necessary to scrounge and improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy...