Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social-climbing junior executive (John Lund). When Lund marries a diplomat's daughter (Gene Tierney) and lands in her circle of snobs, he cannot bring himself to break the news that his mother slings hash in a Jersey City hamburger joint. He stays tongue-tied when Bride Tierney hires Mother Ritter as the family cook, keeps his secret even after his uppity mother-in-law (Miriam Hopkins) moves in and starts loading his mother with chores...
Then, as it must in all sarong epics, catastrophe intrudes on the idyl. The island volcano (realistically played by Hawaii's erupting Mauna Loa) sends fiery lava streaming into the valley, and Jourdan's bride gets her orders from the kahuna to appease the gods by leaping into the angry crater...
...Cincinnati, Walter Schott got some horse-trader's advice from his father, a cattleman: "Be a salesman, always a salesman. Even if you're buying, be a salesman." Schott never forgot the advice. At 18 he hustled off to Richmond, Ind. with his 15-year-old bride, got a job as an auto salesman...
...Judy Garland, 28, sued for an end to her five-year-old, separation-studded marriage to Director Vincente (Father of the Bride) Minnelli. Charging "extreme cruelty," she asked for custody of their four-year-old daughter...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Father of the Bride, with Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett...