Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After dreaming up and dummying up PM in 1939 ("an all-star cast of friends" like Heywood Broun, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman helped get out the first dry runs), Ingersoll began scouring the country for an angel. Once he almost found one in Life Saver Tycoon Edward Noble. They were set to sign the next day. That day Hitler marched into Poland and Noble decided not to march into any risky investments. Ingersoll finally found 16 backers who would "gamble with $100,000 chips," but money petered out, and he talked Field into carrying the whole debt...
When the voting was over, only thirteen (all Communists or fellow-travelers) out of the bemused 300 were against acceptance. The wilted but grinning Jinnah declared "We have cast...
...voting day there was little trouble for the 70,000 carabinieri and crack police mobilized to keep order. Near the Vatican young Communists wearing scarlet neckerchiefs eyed with composure the carmine sash of 95-year-old Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he cast his vote. King Umberto, after long discussions with his advisers, decided to vote. Queen Marie-José had to wait in line for half an hour...
...Sisters from Boston (MGM) nearly knocks itself out trying to assimilate the dissimilar talents of Jimmy Durante and Lauritz Melchior. Set in the Gay Nineties, the picture allows its top-notch cast to dress up in quaint period costumes and poke fun at turn-of-the-century manners. The tortuous plot winds the two pretty sisters (June Allyson and Kathryn Grayson) through such varied backgrounds as a stiff-bosomed New England drawing room, a Bowery honkytonk, an imitation Metropolitan Opera Co. stage in full cry. In spite of its singing, dancing, frenzied movement and fancy dress, Two Sisters adds...
Cluny Brown. Ernst Lubitsch puts Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer and an excellent cast through the hoops of British snobbery (TIME...