Word: edmond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot. As Fox later protested: sets were built, costumes on, extras standing by, cameras ready to roll. No Brando. Then came a telegram from his psychoanalyst in New York: Marlon was "a very sick and mentally confused boy," and in absolutely no condition to work. Fox threw Edmond Purdom into the Brando part, sued Marlon for $2,000 damages. Marlon settled the suit by agreeing to make Désirée, later gloated openly about his success in "copping a medical plea." After that, a Fox executive remarked: "The only good thing I can say about this twerp...
...Edmond Barfield of Atlanta, president of the National Association of Handicaps: abolish the Supreme Court...
...When Edmond Hillary and Tensing Norkay Conquered Everest as a Coronation present for Queen Elizabeth, they gave the rest of the world an added gift in the form of a dramatic and well-organized Technicolor documentary...
...worker-priests themselves. One Catholic review hinted that "the influence of Cardinal Spellman and his friend McCarthy" was responsible. In another Catholic journal, a priest wrote that "we are not obliged to believe that Rome's decisions are made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty...
...minor roles, Edmond O'Brien is particularly convincing as Casca, infusing his lines with a natural fluency, while Deborah Kerr (Portia) and Greer Garson (Calpurnia) make the most of what are essentially bit parts...