Word: cowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monk's cowl did not keep out the demon of despair, says Biographer Bainton, and the despair was finally defined: Luther had begun to doubt the goodness of God. "I wished I had never been created. Love God? I hated Him!" The Devil visited Luther by night, and the monk-priest never doubted that he was real. In the dark night of his own soul, Luther found his own convictions: the whole nature of man is corrupt; man must be born again to be saved...
Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Holiday Hour (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). The Philadelphia Story, with Jane Cowl, John Garfield, Rosalind Russell, Dick Powell and Margaret O'Brien...
...brushes her off with a $5 bill and a one-way ticket home. She escapes death in a train wreck, assumes the identity of a dead fellow traveler, a pregnant mother on the way to live with in-laws who have never seen her. The trusting in-laws (Jane Cowl and Henry O'Neill) take Barbara and her baby to their bosom. Their son (John Lund)-the brother of Barbara's supposed husband, who died in the wreck-suspects her deception but falls too hard in love with her to care. Then Bettger turns up to blackmail...
Though its overripe plot is unconvincing and full of coincidence, the movie delivers good performances, especially bv Actresses Cowl and Stanwyck and Villain Bettger...