Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hugh Roy Cullen, 68, of Houston. A spectacularly successful wildcatter, Cullen has given away more money than most men dream of. In one day, he gave away oil properties potentially worth $160 million to set up a Rockefelle-like foundation, has given other millions to hospitals, schools, and the municipal University of Houston. A crotchety all-out Dixiecrat, he has feuded with Jesse Jones, snapping: "Jones has been away from here for the last 25 to 30 years and has come back to Houston and decided, with the influence of ... a bunch of New York Jews, to run our city...
Ultimately, the movie rests squarely on the characterization of the Scot. Complete with burr and kilt, fierce and tender by turns, full of brooding and bravura, the role is an actor's dream. Actor Todd makes it come true...
Although Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer are excellent in their representation of life as Inge has painted it, he allows his theme to come out too bluntly. The first scene reveals a dream of Miss Booth's in which she is walking with her dog, Sheba. As they slowly begin their trip, Sheba is admired, but as they walk faster and faster, passing many blocks, Sheba becomes lost. Miss Booth calls for Sheba to come back, just as she is trying to call her youth back, but events have passed since she has achieved this admiration and Sheba does...
...many friends as "the madwoman." This is not necessarily derogatory. It is difficult to tell how old the Countess might be because she dresses in the style of the 1880's and is rather out of touch with the times--a fear she manages by living in a dream-world and reading every morning a 1903 newspaper...
...movies with You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me for Maurice Chevalier. Sammy's songs turned up in 50 other movies, and last week, Sammy was just about the biggest bang in Tin Pan Alley. With his senti mental hit of the '30s, I Can Dream, Can't I? on top of the hit parade, and his bouncy new Dear Hearts and Gentle People not far behind, Sammy wasn't killing himself any more...