Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lone Star Lots of stars in this better-than-average Western. Gable and Gardner provide the love, Broderick Crawford the leers, Gabby Hayes and Lionel Barrymore the laughs. At the Loew's State and Orpheum...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
When Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Jimmy Durante and Victor Mature failed to appear as witnesses at the trial of a Hollywood fashion designer charged with stealing a fur piece, the court lost its temper, said: "These Hollywood people ask the protection of the courts, but fail to appear when it doesn't suit their convenience. Who do they think they are? Movie people are no better than anyone else...
Oralists for the J. Smith Club are Joseph R. Cortese and Philip C. Potter. The research team which forms the Council on the Brief consists of Robert P. Cook, Phil N. Crawford, Theodore J. Horvath, William J. Kelly, Richard E. Mansfield, and Arthur V. Savage...
This Woman Is Dangerous (Warner) shows how Joan Crawford loses her eyesight and then finds true love in the antiseptic arms of the surgeon who saves her vision. The stumbling block to this romance is that Joan, as usual, has a lurid past: she is the brain, front woman and nursemaid to a pair of hysterical gunmen (David Brian and Philip Carey). What with planning robberies, quieting their tantrums and offering such motherly warnings as, "Now don't hurt anyone," as she passes out the guns, it is remarkable that she doesn't lose her mind as well...