Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based on a novel by Lucy Herndon Crockett and filmed in the Virgin Islands, The Proud and Profane was produced and directed by the talented team of William Perlberg and George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street, The Country Girl) and has a strong supporting cast headed by talented Thelma Ritter. None of them could save...
...Lowell House dining hall, sneaker-clad feet are beginning to wend their way toward libraries instead of rehearsals, and the College's Herculean theatre season at last draws to a thumping close. At this point the stage-struck undergraduate, like the Wall Street speculator in 1929 or the Davy Crockett fan in 1955, naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year out of the same faddish enthusiasm that once led them to swallow...
...Million Dollar Movie. Some distraught parents reported that their entranced children had watched the single-minded pursuit of Fay Wray by the colossal gorilla every single night of the five it was shown. Said a happy WOR executive: "This has been the biggest thing since Davy Crockett...
...while but not a very long while because it turned out the chairs were all wired to be hot seats. Then Dr. Jekyll asked one of the kids to come up. "What's your name?" the doctor asked genially. "David." A wit in the audience kept shouting "David Crockett" while Dr. Jekyll made the boy itch, genially explaining, "It all comes from what we call nerve control." Suddenly Dr. Jekyll's assistant sprinted out on stage chasing something. Then the lights went out and all the kids figured it must be the time they were supposed to grab the girls...
...population the U.S. turned out well over 60% of its goods. Across the land the signs of limitless bounty were evident. Prosperity's bright star twinkled over Chicago, where the Pullman Building will be replaced by a 20-story skyscraper tinted gold; the star blazed briefly on Davy Crockett, who rocketed overnight into a $100 million moppet madness, on Ford's newborn $10,000 Continental-and on cigar makers, who had their best year since 1929 as 10 million Americans contentedly puffed 6.1 billion cigars. As 1955 ended, the U.S. could look back and truthfully...