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Louisa (Universal-International) tries to find hilarity in the idea of a grandmother falling in love. When Spring Byington moves in with her son's family, she snaps at the maid (Connie Gilchrist), interferes with daughter-in-law Ruth Hussey's raising of the children, and quarrels about food prices with Grocer Edmund Gwenn. Appealed to by her son (Ronald Reagan), she sets out to make amends and, from her apology to Widower Gwenn, a romance blossoms. Her son's employer, Bachelor Charles Coburn, promptly appears as a blustering rival for her affections. All this foolishness allows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Edgar Stehli), are French-Canadians living in Ottawa in the early 19205. There are grandpère's three sons-a "crazy violinist" (Claude Dauphin), a round-the-clock tosspot (Kurt Kasznar), and a round-the-town ladies' man (Richard Hart); his often disapproving Scottish-Presbyterian daughter-in-law (Leora Dana); and his grandson (Johnny Stewart) who stands on the curb of adolescence waiting for his voice to change. When a pretty girl (Eva Gabor) comes to help with the housework, love stirs for the first time in the ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...carne feast in the hotel penthouse. That evening he got into a tuxedo and escorted Mrs. Truman and Margaret to dinner and an evening reception. The host: suave, bald Blevins Davis, 46, onetime Independence schoolteacher who became a theatrical producer, married aged Heiress Margaret Sawyer Hill (a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon James J. Hill) in 1946 and inherited her fortune when she died last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Old Home Week | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Khan proudly announced that his daughter-in-law of four months, the Princess Margarita (more familiarly known to millions as Rita Hayworth) would have a baby "some time between the first of November and January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hands Across the Sea | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...drawing room of the lonely castle, the English owner, Mrs. Tennant, whose son is away on active service, sits with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jack, and tries to talk about the only two things that interest her-her son and the reliability of the servants. But Mrs. Jack hardly answers; unknown to her mother-in-law, she is a mass of nerves trying to conceal her love for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Treasure | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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