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Word: brents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bette bounds off with Olivia's husband (Dennis Morgan), leaving a fiancé (George Brent) in her wake, bounds right back after her catch has killed himself. When it becomes apparent that nothing much is ever going to come of all this sound and fury over a tyrannical child, Our Life curls up its toes and subsides. Miss Davis, fleeing from a manslaughter rap for running over a child, wrecks her car and dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...villas, unbreakable codes and secret inks all play their usual part in this drama of intrigue. But in adding to these the skillful directing of Tim Whelan and the international atmosphere engendered by Ilona Massey as a Scandinavian singer, Boris Karloff as a Sherlock from the "Yard," and George Brent as an ex-All-American calling signals for the F.B.I., Hollywood has produced a show which proves that the capable handling of an old line can still provide an enjoyable evening. Done with skill and a restraint which forbids long-winded patriotic speeches, and maintaining a consistently rapid pace, "International...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactor George Brent, 37; and Cinemactress Ann Sheridan, 26; he for the third time; in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Sheridan announced she had chosen George Brent as the man with whom she would like best to be caught in a blackout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Although everything turns out all right (the spy ring is smashed; Brent and his blonde captive will live a better life together after the war), International Lady is more effective as a warning to Americans to beware of wealthy Long Island fifth columnists than as a creepy spy melodrama. Unintentionally funny shot: Detective Rathbone, disguised as a mustachioed butler, looking like a cross between a caricature of himself and a blond Groucho Marx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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