Word: dunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount). Shirley Booth, with her gilded Oscar (Best Actress of 1952, for her work in Come Back, Little Sheba) scarce beginning to peel, has already laid aside her dignity and gone for a summer's dunk in a tub of sentimental lather. For this film, based on a Vina Delmar novel, is pure soap opera, and it is the kind of suds that leaves a sticky ring around the mind. Shirley plays a part that is wallowingly reminiscent of John's Other Wife...
...Which allow their members to worship exactly as they please. Says Dr. Burkhardt of baptism: "In our church [in Columbus, Ohio] we sprinkle, pour and dunk. You can have whichever treatment you desire. One lady, who had not had much religion, wasn't sure which was best so she asked for all three. So we sprinkled, poured and dunked her. That was her privilege, and I don't think God minded...