Word: butlering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strictly military action, Scriptors W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and Director John Farrow stuck to the Wake Island log and made their record "as accurate and factual as possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does...
Pinks feeds her on leftover champagne and caviar from the nightclub where he works. He plays butler for her, trundles her all the way from Manhattan to Miami in her wheel chair, plants her in the path of the playboy she is trailing. Risking a 20-year jail turn, Pinks blackmails the crook who slapped her (Barton MacLane) into a one-night loan of a nightclub (complete with Ozzie Nelson), stages a blowout to bolster Her Highness' fading delusions of grandeur. To cap the climax, Pinks appears in full dress, and Her Highness sees him for the first time...
...buildings on her estate in Tarrytown, N.Y. a guesthouse for sailors on leave. The Navy announced that the chosen sailors "lounge on luxurious chairs, eat off an old Italian table brought from a monastery, walk on Oriental rugs, store their clothes in huge old French armoires. ... A butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants cater to every wish. . . . Meals are served at every hour...
...Evalyn Walsh McLean, Washington socialite, has provided garden benches, paper cups, a water cooler-and even a butler-for weary bus riders who wait transportation in front of her home at R St. and Wisconsin...
Theodore Hundley, Jr., J. W. Hutchinson, W. L. Jones, P. W. Kalionzones, S. A. Kimble, H. F. Klie, H. G. Klein, S. A. Kelliner, Jr., Robert Kurson, H. C. Lindgren, M. S. Lipscomb, Jr., R. L. Livermore, Shane Lloyd Butler, G. R. Locke...