Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet One" is the story of a ten-year old boy, Donald Peters (Donald Thompson), who has grown up in an atmosphere of hate and poverty in the slums of Harlem. After several petty felonies, Donald is taken to the Wiltwyck School, where counsellors and psychiatrists try to help him by erasing the scars on his mind caused by his unhappy home life. The scenes of Donald's rejection by his mother, his unhappy life with his grandmother, and his exclusion from the society of other boys, are told in a long flashback of the boy's thoughts...
...funeral, but by last week the whole town was talking about him. He had left an estate of $100,000, and he had put it all in trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend as he wishes. Old Winchesterites might soon forget Peddler Charles Henry but young Winchesterites would remember him for years to come...
...late Moe Berlinger, a quiet, sickly shopkeeper, and his vigorous, iron-willed wife Sarah (now Sandra). The great want sprang first in young Milton's mother, who helped earn the family living as a store detective. One day she borrowed 20? carfare to take the five-year-old boy to an amateur contest after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton won the contest, and Mom promptly went to work on his career as if it were a sacred mission. As he grew, his age could be reckoned by his billing: "The Shimmy...
...Chicago's Palace in 1933, he broke records for five weeks but he outraged the late Chicago Daily News Critic Lloyd Lewis, who found him a "blab-mouthed, satyr-eyed kid" who "toys with physiology, pathology and pruriency, tossing them about with all the freedom of a delinquent boy." On television, acutely conscious of his juvenile following and of the strait-laced National Broadcasting Co., Berle keeps it clean...
...young people who played the boy and the girl in "Torment" when it was filmed in 1946 have since been called forth to bigger things. Mai Zetterling, the girl, has been seen lately in several J. Arthur Rank productions, and the boy, Alf Kjellin, has spent the last couple of years in Hollywood in the employment of David O. Stelznick--making no pictures, but having his named changed every so often. That is a pity, because he is an actor of something more than promise. Miss Zetterling doesn't really have a great deal to do in the film...