Word: bracken
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...anonymous the surrounding players. Most of Hutton's movies, which typically cast her as the good-time gal whose bravado masks her innocence, were at best inconsequential; and her costars in these modest endeavors ranged from grouchy John Lund to the craggy leprechaun Barry Fitzgerald, from hysterical geek Eddie Bracken to bulky Sonny Tufts. (Sonny Tufts??) The paucity of registered masterpieces of complementary star power simply proved her appeal. Audiences paid to see her propriety-defying shenanigans, in the implicit belief that any Hutton performance - squeezing as it did every ounce of life from her slim, sturdy body - might...
...comedy that transposes the Nativity story to an American town overrun with horny soldiers. Hutton's Trudy Kockenlocker is a virginal party girl who gets drunk and pregnant on a toot with the boys in uniform. To save the family's reputation, Trudy must convince Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), the 4F loony who has loved her since childhood, to marry her while impersonating the soldier who knocked her up - whoever he was. (Trudy thinks his name might have been Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki.) Addressing all kinds of subjects that were usually taboo in Hollywood, and then flipping the bird to them, Sturges...
...always on top of the reading and always went to lecture. People sat around him in a little radius but no one sat next to him. I met him randomly having dinner with him. I ended up sitting with him in class.” Racquel N. Bracken...
...Bracken said that the renovation is only the latest in years of attempted expansion into public space in the Square, citing a failed renovation of the Wurst House (now Abercrombie and Fitch) and other building within the Charles Hotel courtyard...
...It’s happened two or three times in the past,” Bracken said. “Before long, that whole public courtyard will be enclosed private restaurant space...