Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adams was President of the United States and Philadelphia was something more than a lengthy stop on the Congressional Limited run. The result is a triangle--not the scheme of the researchers, of course--involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively meek Madison inherits the landlady, later to become immortalized in song and story under the somewhat shady epithet of "Dolly...
...line, where heroes are not so self-evident, there was more competition and more difference of opinion. Cagey West Coasters, aware that all the backfield positions were filled, began boosting as early as October for U.C.L.A.'s star end, Burr Baldwin. Baldwin, one of a half-dozen capable ends in the U.S., made All-Americas hands down...
Magnificent Doll (Skirball-Manning; Universal-International) is a soft, oversimple Hollywood history lesson that shows how Ginger Rogers shaped the destiny of the Republic. Ginger plays the lady who is loved by-or profoundly influences the history-making careers of-James Madison, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson...
...When her husband, child and father are 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...
...Burr (who was actually married and a father at the time),seems to have the inside track until the lady begins to feel the first faint stirrings of political consciousness. Then she recognizes egocentric Senator Burr as the symbol of anti-democratic thinking. Madison, on the other hand, suddenly personifies not only the Will-of-the-People but also True Love. As the wife of Secretary of State Madison, Dolly (Ginger), looking far too regal ever to have been Fred Astaire's hoofing partner, sweeps into the White House to act as widower President Jefferson's official hostess...