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Word: dehaviland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back one or two years to 1856, in "Indja," where Flynn, as noble, good-hearted, brave and true, in a word, English, Major Geoffrey Vicars, skirmishes baggy-trousered local rebels, goes panther shooting, or was it cheetahs, with the treacherous Surat Khan, and loses the love of Olivia DeHaviland, whose lower lip quivers almost continuously in the role of some English general's tender-sweet daughter. The charge, rung in as a sort of last resort in the last ten minutes of the film, climaxes an hour and a half of historical rance, during which the heroine says, "Perry (Geoff...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...time I got to the bar the women were standing around it in a tight circle, talking loudly to the other press agent, a short man in a tweed suit and a mustache. One of them smiled at me, brandished her drink, and said, "DeHaviland makes a beautiful Juliet. Vivien Leigh couldn't play Juliet to save her life." I smiled back and turned around to see the first press agent standing quietly in the corner, sloshing his Martini around in its glass. He looked up and smiled again, quickly. "Lunch is here," he said. I backed...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/27/1951 | See Source »

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