Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he liked an actress' work he used to say: "She gives me a lump." Being a sentimentalist, he was the natural companion of George M. Cohan. He met Mr. Cohan at a picnic in 1904, and before the day was over made him a producing partner. The partnership lasted 16 years and gave Broadway 50 shows. The first was Little Johnny Jones, and in it George Cohan sang for the first time Give My Regards to Broadway and The Yankee Doodle...
...Ingram Frizer, a companion, in a quarrel...
...American Club, last week shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near East strategy. Seeking Pacific Clip per passage for himself and Major Gerald Thomas, his companion, Jimmy had found the Clipper booked up. Most vulnerable reservation was that of a U.S. General. Captain Roosevelt...
...other half of the screen show, "Honeymoon for Three," is a rather unsuccessful attempt to fit Ann Sheridan into the role of a comedienne. Her companion, George Brent, is very little help in telling the story of a women-chased author trying to decide where his love lies. The odd party of the honeymoon, one Osa Massen, would have been a much better choice, but he just doesn't realize it. However, nothing he could do would make the picture more than mildly amusing...
Rage in Heaven (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Taken from an eight-year-old novel by James Hilton, the film puts Robert Montgomery back in his English squire's tweeds as the respectable owner of a humming steel mill. Soon married to his mother's charming young companion (Ingrid Bergman), he begins to exhibit slight traces of eccentricity- an inordinate jealousy of his best friend (George Sanders), a shivering horror of the moon, a tormenting fear complex. But it is never brash. As he hesitatingly proposes to Miss Bergman in the warm evening under the oaks of his estate...