Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiredness." It is not difficult to see why Tracy is tired. His director, John Sturges, has insisted on everything, and allowed for nothing. He has Tracy running the gamut from the Hollywood equivalent of an El Grecian Christ figure, to the benign, twinkling-eyed mentor of an obnoxious little boy, who takes himself as seriously as the ambitious lead in an amateur Caucasian production of a Japanese morality play...
Then he went on to give an extemporaneous homily, recalling how as a little boy with a sore foot he was carried by his father to a religious festival. "Today, riding in the sedia gestatoria, I remembered this. Today, too, I would have been unable to walk, for my knees were weak and my eyes were bewildered and overwhelmed by the events of the last few days . . . It is up to you to draw the conclusion: 'When necessary, have yourself carried by your Father, the Lord...
...biggest airline financing till then. Since the unprecedented move came at a time when airline finances were weakening, it was touch and go whether the underwriters would not back out at the last minute. Said Smith to an associate, when he sat down to sign the deal: "Boy, if we hadn't got to work on time this morning, we wouldn't have any deal...
Once upon a time, in the dank and gloomy castle of Monteloup in old Poitou, there lived an impecunious baron and his daughter Angélique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). If it appeared in the daytime, The Winslow Boy might look like a soap opera, but Terence Rattigan's old school tie has a habit of glowing in the dark; with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Siobhan McKenna, Rex Thompson, Denholm Elliott...