Word: briens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jean O'Brien '51 of Belmont: major--English; circulation manager, Radcliffe News; treasurer, Catholic Club; Outing Club; community service...
Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien, 12, who specializes in tearjerkers, played a real-life scene with all the stops out. Her widowed mother, Gladys, announced her engagement to an orchestra leader named Don Sylvio. Margaret objected with howls: on hearing the news, mother reported, Margaret "turned on the tears" and kept them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry...
...different from the old doctors, judges, mayors, and philosophers of his earlier vehicles. Needless to say, he is fish food before the movie ends. Young Stockwell spends most of his time gaping at the adults, his eyes brimming with tears. Next to Margaret O'Brien, he is undoubtedly the most disgusting child to appear on the screen. If Dean and Margaret ever get into the same picture, God help us--everyone. Richard Widmark plays the first mate competently, but without much interest. "Down to the Sea in Ships" is this week's best movie to avoid...
...kind of humorist who will offer to tell you "the latest on Margaret O'Brien" or "the TRUTH about Dame May Whitty," might be the person the new Yale Record was written for. It is an unsuccessful parody on the comic book which never begins to realize its possibilities...
...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...