Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David Niven, a thin, sprightly Englishman, plays Aaron Burr, and although he does not carry a label of the variety commonly employed by political cartoonists, he is easily recognizable as the scoundrel. Burgess Meredith, as "Father of the Constitution" and name-giver to a high school in Brooklyn, does the only reasonable...
...killed off in a yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
...Playboy of the Western World. Burgess Meredith in an agreeable revival of the finest of modern folk satires (TIME...
...confesses that he has murdered his father in some far place, all the young women in the neighborhood find him superbly glamorous; indeed, the publican's daughter Pegeen is ready to throw over her commonplace swain to marry him. Fired by all this adulation, mousy Christopher Mahon (Burgess Meredith) begins to see himself as a lion, cops all the prizes in a sports contest, becomes a very chesty...
...Class of 1945: Robert Chapin Alsop, Loring Burgess Jr., Richard Wendell Johnson, George John Kirn, Donald Nelson Michael, Raymond Moley 2d, Reed Moyer, Richard Joseph Ward, Lucien Hynes Warner Jr., Jack Harris Zinkow...