Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Melissa Mason had charm, wit, grace and a log that could go through a 380-degree circle on a maneuvering board as easily as a pair of dividers...
...fired jotted down its position. They fired at us for half an hour, barely missing us several times. The Colonel noticed I was scared and said: 'You're safe with me. I was wounded three times in the last war and that's a lucky charm.' Roosevelt's a good officer but he's got too damn much guts...
...doing well for herself on the stage. In an Omaha production of A Kiss For Cinderella she tried her best not to hog the show, for the sake of a shy, obscure young Omaha actor named Henry Fonda, who has never forgotten the kindness. But her automatic ability to charm an audience did not save Dorothy McGuire a few hard years. Her skillful replacement of Martha Scott in Our Town went unnoticed; her understudying of Julie Haydon in The Time of Your Life got her nowhere...
Dodger fans, than which there are none more fanatic, long ago gave Ebbets Field a charm of its own. Branch Rickey, who became president of the Brooklyn club last winter, has made it over into vendetta alley. Hawkeyes from the stands size up each Rickey move; hawkeyes from Rickey's aerie perched over home plate size up every reflex in the stands. There is plenty for each side...
Hers to Hold (Universal) is another example of the high artfulness whereby Universal has inched its best-paying property, Diva Deanna Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings...