Word: calvert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington (Calvert) 3, St. Louis...
...London widower (Melvyn Douglas) falls in love with a sympathetic, war-weary A.T.S. girl (Phyllis Calvert). His son (Philip Friend), missing in action for several years, turns up wounded, bitter and a virtual stranger to the father. Son turns for understanding-and eventually for love-to father's fiancee. Before father can marry the girl, everyone gets into such a self-sacrificial mood that son's postwar maladjustment dissipates itself in noble dialogue...
...help tell this somber story, Paramount has used the services of a good British director, Compton Bennett (The Seventh Veil), a charming, able British star, Miss Calvert, and some competent British supporting players. The result is nonetheless a poor counterfeit of the genuine product. My Own True Love lacks the virtues of the best British movies (subtle human detail, glints of gentle humor, authentic backgrounds), but it has the faults of being talky, stodgy and intolerably slow...
Bench & Bar. In Salt Lake City, the City Commission ruled that before City Judge Marcellus K. Snow could assume office, he would have to pay up his 37 back parking fines. In Harlan, Ky., Special Circuit Judge Cleon K. Calvert charged himself with public drunkenness, promptly ordered a $10 fine...
...Louis Ministerial Alliance sent St. Louis Symphony Conductor Vladimir Golschmann an indignant letter after discovering that he had posed as a Calvert "man of distinction." Said the Alliance: "We are amazed and deeply disappointed that you have seen fit to sell your reputation for . . . advertisement of a product so destructive to ... the morals of American youth...