Word: connor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...77th birthday party for Dancer Fred Astaire came off without a missed step. The film, which like Part 1 is a patchwork of old MGM movie clips, made its debut at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater with the help of a chorus line of venerable hoofers (Donald O'Connor, 50, Cyd Charisse, 53, and Marge Champion, 52), one retired Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller, 71) and a true MGM golden-ager, Cory Grant, 72. But the stars of the evening were the narrators of the film: Actor-Dancer Gene Kelly, 63, and Astaire, who later adjourned to a lavish postscreening birthday...
...good-natured, concerns Marion's discovery that manhood is not something that comes along with rank and wardrobe. Working his way home from California to St. Louis, Marion gets as far as a small Western town named Bidwell. He falls for a young waitress (Glynnis O'Connor) and lets himself become BidwelFs major curiosity, accepting the honor and privileges due a Marine who has seen extensive combat duty...
...little difficult to determine what Director John Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly) and Scenarist Stanford Whitmore had on their minds here. Hancock re-creates some lovely home-front ambience and gets winning performances from Vincent and O'Connor. Still, to give the movie some resolution, it is necessary to bring on a trio of Japanese youths who have run away from an internment camp. Their appearance triggers the film's one action sequence. Marion and most of Bidwell's male population beat the woods and brave the rapids in search of the three boys-a slapdash...
Apparently so, or there wouldn't be so many people like Schoettle or Connor or the Linvilles (who have been a team for seven years) or '72 gold medal winner Foster, or Argyle Campbell, or Bill Cox Jr., or any of the other dedicated combatants in the Tempest class...
...Secret Service agents waiting outside said that he was the Kuwaiti Ambassador, but it was really Connor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, attending a reception in his honor at Eliot House yesterday afternoon...