Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LAVONNE C. CRAWFORD...
...looked as if TV had made a major raid on Hollywood talent. Joan Crawford was on television playing the suffering wife of an unfaithful husband; Marilyn Monroe was cavorting on Jack Benny's show; Ava Gardner, as the mystery guest on a quiz program, was answering embarrassing questions ("Are you married and are you happy about it?"); Loretta Young, Ray Milland and Joan Caulfield were turning up each week on their own programs; Arlene Dahl, Ray Bolger, Agnes Moorehead and young Brandon De Wilde were beginning big TV roles...
...Things were so slow at M-G-M that Joan Crawford, working on Torch Song, had the full use of three dressing rooms...
Footlights Theater (Fri 9:30 p.m., CBS). Broderick Crawford in Margin for Fair...
What did all this add up to? Few businessmen thought it was anything more than what they called it: isolated soft spots. Some of the biggest, like Du Pont's President Crawford H. Greenewalt, were strongly optimistic. Said Greenewalt: "There is in my opinion no more reason to credit current pessimism than there was to take to the woods in 1945." The facts bore him out. Business was still expanding vigorously, as evidenced by A.T. & T.'s plans to offer $625 million in convertible debentures, the largest single new financing issue in U.S. corporation history...