Word: carroll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, another TV performer was charging a sponsor with excessive timidity. J. Carrol Naish, star of Life with Luigi, complained that Sponsor General Foods last week dropped the high-rated (39.7%) show largely because two scripts had offended 1) utility companies and 2) stockbrokers. One show had Luigi pitted against a power company that wanted to cut down a tree in his backyard; the other depicted Luigi as the troublesome owner of one share of stock in a big corporation. Snorted Naish, a Taft Republican: "The idea that I would countenance any subversive ideology on my show is ridiculous...
High costs have ruled out the possibility of erecting temporary stands at the north end of the stadium. "The expense of such stands would far exceed their possible revenue," Carrol F. Getchell, business manager of the H.A.A., said yesterday...
...head-on train collision, right triumphs, and the Rio Grande comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol Naish as pioneer railroad men, and Zasu Pitts as a fluttery frontier belle...
...year Hollywood career, Carrol Patrick Sarsfield Joseph Naish, 51, has never once been starred. But he has worked steadily, profitably and to the consistent pleasure of moviegoers in so many films that he has lost count. His conservative guess...
Otherwise, Bannerline is notable only for a distinction that has given a lift to scores of its predecessors on the B-picture assembly line: another fine performance by Character Actor J. Carrol Naish. As he has many times before, Actor Naish plays the menace, an Italian-American gangster. This one takes pride in his rise from a slum to become a silent senior partner of politicians; he has his own sense of fair play as well as foul, and there is enough mellowness in his menace to make him a semicomic figure. Naish's creative playing progressively fills...