Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father Dodd...
This time Joan Fontaine is Tessa, the nubile nymph doomed to love in vain (in Switzerland and England) for 105 cineminutes, and to expire of excess happiness and a heart attack inside of one. Charles Boyer is egocentric Composer Dodd, who does not notice that little Tessa is growing up and in love with him. Alexis Smith is his icy socialite wife, who does notice...
...Dodd's hardest job used to be getting directors to take his advice. Once a director wanted the wedding guests to cap the ceremony by singing I Ain't Gonna Sin No More. Dodd had to threaten to walk off the lot if the director persisted. But those were the early days. Now directors more readily bow to Dodd...
...Though Dodd works with movie people intimately, no big stars are active members of his parish. Some who do attend: Bryant Washburn, Jonathan Hale, Monte Blue, Marjorie Gateson. Dodd likes movie people, feels he has some influence on their lives just by working with them. And they think he is tops. Wrote Beverly Hills' late Editor Rob Wagner (Script): "Without doubt Father Dodd is the best-loved character in movieland. ... He has never 'preached' nor pointed the finger of superior virtue at his erring sheep...
Explains Father Dodd: "I am not an odd fish. I am not running some kind of a strange church. I am just a regular priest of the Episcopal Church doing my job in what are somewhat different circumstances...