Word: brat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eddie Stanky, still "The Brat" at 34, and still one of baseball's top leadoff men (127 walks last season), finally achieved his ambition: a big-league managership. Second Baseman Stanky fired the Brooklyn Dodgers to a pennant in 1947, the Boston Braves to another in 1948, and the Giants to their first in 14 years last fall. Next year, as player-manager, Stanky will see what he can do to rekindle the old "Gas House Gang" spark for the St. Louis Cardinals (at a reported $37,000 a year...
...that his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski, 100% Polish-American, is entirely a mixture of brat and brute, as some reviewers have presented, doing scant justice to the range and subtlety of his acting. At his most manic, he still displays changes of pace as dazzling as an electric shower. At his very best, the show of force shades off into genuine strength and Kowalski becomes exactly life sized, a well-intentioned and sympathetic character...
...Joan Stocker sounds like a spoiled, irresponsible brat, and it might be a good idea to send her home...
...Dear Brat (Paramount). First came 1947's Dear Ruth, a comedy hit; then came the sequel, 1949's Dear Wife, a turkey. The third of the series can be described as a turkey croquette. Like its predecessor, Dear Brat celebrates the adolescent excesses of Mona Freeman, playing a feminine Henry Aldrich. This time she cues Edward Arnold's slow burns and Billy De Wolfe's prissy swivets by trying to rehabilitate a hardened criminal (Lyle Bettger), who bears a special grudge against Judge Arnold. The result is the kind of movie that helps sell television sets...
...Harrison Muller is a show-stopper as the superior Yaleman who breezes in for a visit in his Winton 6. But various long-suffering grown-ups just go through stock-company motions, and that great pioneer in brathood, Willie's kid sister Jane, today seems just another brat. Ann Crowley, who is a pleasant enough ingenue as Lola, seldom becomes Tarkington's baby-talking, beau-snatching vamp, at once a young man's dream and everyone else's nightmare...