Word: champ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Champ...
...hero, too lumbering to be a comedian, too much of a numbskull and oaf to be a villain. He is, in short, a character actor and like most character actors he usually winds up (in the parlance of the type he customarily impersonates) behind the eight-ball.* In The Champ Wallace Beery was a sad superannuated pugilist. In Flesh he is a German wrestler named Polikai, gentle, generous, an easy mark for such a slick girl as Lora Nash (Karen Morley) who is the mistress of a thief (Ricardo Cortez) and the mother of a little illegitimate shaver. The thief...
Best original story: Frances Marion (The Champ...
...after, a recount of the votes for Fredric March showed that his performance in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde had beaten Wallace Beery's in The Champ by only one vote. Academy rule says the margin must be two or more. The dilemma was solved by ordering another gold statuet for Wallace Beery...
Like his subject, Biographer Clark is the son of a famed father. While the late great Champ Clark was Speaker, young Bennett practically grew up in the House of Representatives. Speaker Clark advised him to be a Missouri farmer. Instead he studied law in Washington, served four years under his father as House parliamentarian. In 1917 he went to War, rose to a colonelcy in the A. E. F. As much to Col. Clark as to any other man has gone credit for the initiation of the American Legion in Paris shortly after the Armistice. Back in St. Louis...