Word: brents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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International Lady (United Artists) chronicles the adventures of three very nice people: a .U.S. G-Man (George Brent), a Scotland Yarder (Basil Rathbone), and a beauteous spy (Ilona Massey). How this pleasant trio happened to get involved in a Nazi effort to sabotage U.S. shipments of war planes to Britain is a mystery. They should have been having tea together in some cozy...
...Hollywood studio announced that the kissing record set by George Brent and Ann Sheridan (56.2 seconds) had finally been broken by Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman (3 min. 5 sec.). A citizens' committee of Lilypons, Md., appointed Lily Pons honorary Mayor. (The town was named in honor of the opera singer nine years ago.) "I'm never going to get behind that phony mustache again," declared Julius ("Groucho") Marx. "The mustache is out for good." The New York Times published an editorial in protest...
...Hollywood Gabster Jimmie Fidler tried to take to the CBS air with a bit of advice for a pair of cinemastars. He wanted to tell Laraine Day she had made a mistake in vacating her perdurable role as the nurse in the Dr. Kildare series, and to adjure George Brent not to go around explaining why he wouldn't marry bouncy Ann Sheridan. Promptly CBS censors decided the items were on the dubious side, suggested he toss them out of his script. Thereupon Fidler asked his sponsor, the Tayton Co. (cosmetics), to cancel his contract so that he could...
...late (Episcopal) Bishop Mosher of the Philippines once warned a visiting colleague: "I don't mind so much your confirming the ones I've confirmed, but try not to repeat on the ones both Brent (his predecessor) and I have done...
Ably supported by George Brent and Mary Astor, Bette Davis gives a completely convincing performance of a wife whose family life was all based on a great lie. Unknown to her husband she is not the mother of his son. The movie is tense with the psychological struggle which embroils Bette with the mother of this son who returns to claim his father. By skillful direction and able use of restraint this intensity is maintained up to the final scenes where Brent as the husband finally learns of the great lie and makes his decision...