Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The lovers and the child make each other quite a lot of needless trouble before they get their differences settled. Except for a keenly bracing ten minutes of pursuit and rescue in troubled waters, the picture is about as exciting as a plate of boiled haddock. Yet the story'...
RUBBISH. IN 22 YEARS' ASSOCIATION WITH HUBBLE I HAVE NEVER HEARD HIM USE PROFANITY. THE ATTRIBUTED REMARK IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER . . .
Portraits Forgotten. Late in life, he tried to change. "No more paughtraits," he once wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them, and hope never to do another especially of the Upper Classes." During World War I, he trundled off to try his hand at battle scenes ("I...
For the screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of...
Died. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 42, Standard Oil heir, prewar tabloid character; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. A popular target for assault & battery suits (by his yacht engineer and his secretary), twice-married Rogers enjoyed his greatest notoriety when Musicomedy Actress Evelyn Hoey committed suicide at his Pennsylvania...