Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Name & Address. In Oklahoma City, police decided that the man they were looking for was Crawford Sleeper, who in burglarizing an apartment exchanged his pants for a better pair, left behind in the pockets a letter addressed to himself and a withholding-tax statement...
Broderick Crawford deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Willie Stark. Crawford, an ex-grade B gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; with Broderick Crawford (TIME...
...Font's own President Crawford H. Greenewalt filed his own cogent brief. Only because of Du Font's size, said Chemist Greenewalt, was his company able to spend ten years and $27 million on the "difficult and sometimes bitterly disappointing research" to develop nylon-and thus give rise to many new U.S. businesses. To illustrate his point, Greenewalt held a 1.2-lb. package of nylon (price: $1.60) in one hand and a woman's nylon dress in the other. The dress had been processed by six companies-spinner, throwster, weaver, etc.-and was priced to retail...
...best performances, the Film Critics named Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men and Olivia de Havilland (for the second year in a row) for her work in The Heiress. The critics' honors for direction went to Carol Reed's staging of The Fallen Idol. Ignoring actresses, the National Board chose Ralph Richardson as the best performer, for his roles in both The Fallen Idol and The Heiress, and singled out De Sica for the director's kudos...