Word: dimwits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Belinda is harshly treated by her father (Charles Bickford) and her aunt (Agnes Moorehead), and is generally regarded as a dimwit. Then the new doctor discovers her and teaches her sign language. She has scarcely begun to blossom when she is raped by the local Lothario (Stephen McNally). She gives birth to a baby, and refuses to name the father. Everyone assumes that the doctor is guilty and he has to leave town. But after a murder and a courtroom scene, everything turns out all right...
...screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...
Snake Sutton is a hard-muscled, sensitive, moral dimwit who climbs, tooth & nail, from social dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...
...surviving comic strips that are really meant to be funny is Segar's Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye. Thimble Theatre's first cast consisted of gawky Heroine Olive Oyl and her dimwit brother Castor. They straggled along for ten years before Castor Oyl one day in 1929 encountered Popeye on a dock. Cried Castor: "Hey, are you a sailor?" Said Popeye dourly: "Ja think I was a cowboy...