Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catching a Lady Bird. It was at this stage of his life that the brash young Texan caught Lady Bird (christened Claudia Alta Taylor), the bright, charming daughter of a millionaire Texas rancher. Johnson organized his campaign and surrounded her in typical fashion. The day they met in Austin he asked for and got a date for breakfast the next morning; he courted her for three days until he had to go back to Washington, then kept up a steady fire of letters and telephone calls. They were married ten weeks after they met, and Johnson hustled her back...
...Elliott Lewis began his busy life 45 years ago in Manhattan. He headed west to take a prelaw course at Los Angeles City College but soon drifted into radio acting, and remembers the late '305 as the beginning of "the wonderful decade for radio." He utilized his brash New York accent to get comedy roles with Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Al Jolson, Ozzie & Harriet Nelson. By 1940 he was doing 22 shows a week, a mark he broke only during the war. As a master sergeant in the Armed Services Radio, he handled 120 shows at once and found...
...still resounding when a self-assured little girl came forward from her desk, and in a firm, quiet voice told the teacher she might as well go right ahead and inscribe the Bible. It ought to be inscribed to Oveta Culp. Pig-tailed Oveta Culp wasn't being brash or smart-alecky ; she knew she was the best speller, and was merely stating what she regarded as inevitable. At term's end, Oveta won the Bible...
...amiable with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...
...Love Melvin (MGM) is a Technicolored song & dance show with little to offer except the animated presence of Donald O'Connor. Cast as a photographer's brash assistant whose main job is lugging flashbulbs, O'Connor falls head over dancing heels in love with a pretty Broadway chorine (Debbie Reynolds),and boastfully promises to get her picture on the cover of his magazine. For the next several issues, photographs of prizefighters, puppies and horses keep appearing on the magazine cover with increasingly monotonous regularity-but never one of the chorine. Does Debbie ever...