Word: carson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the "Recession" of 1921 lost him his job and got her one, he left her for another woman, telling her, on his way out: "If I died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation in a den of lions." Pierson, a happy, irresponsible sort, took on Louise and her four children with cheerful unconcern...
...Hollywood Canteen" is a throwback to the all-star musicals of last spring. In a belated sequel to "Thank Your Lucky Stars," Warners' has thrown together 62 stars from Jack Carson to Joseph Szigeti in a lengthy series of songs and dances...
Somehow, the tricky juggling of these two simultaneous stories manages to avoid the awful fate it deserves. The somehow is an out & out triumph of Greer Carson's versatility as an actress. Reverting in dizzy succession from grandmother to bride to grandmother, she keeps the character of Mrs. Parkington sufficiently herself to lend unity and even dignity to a picture that might well have become a hodgepodge of cosmetic virtuosity...
...Warners) tardily, joins the overcrowd of comedies about overcrowded Washington, with more than the usual number of fake marriages, misunderstandings, eccentric bit-players, and mirror mazes of French-farcically-slamming doors. Doughgirls Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another...
Died. Miguel Antonio Otero, 84, governor of the territory of New Mexico from 1897 to 1906, buffalo-hunting companion of "Wild Bill" Hickok, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Kit Carson and General Custer; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...