Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With little deadpan humor, the picture is full of obvious but fairly amusing jokes about the insularity of Boston patricians and of obvious, rather anachronistic japes about Freud. Ronald Colman has gentle grace in the title role; Edna Best as his wife and Percy Waram as a brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown...
James Walker was satisfyingly oily as the evil Fatt and the other incarnations Odets gives him, and Helen McCloskey was impressive as Joe's inspiring wife, Edna. The only other standout in a very competent cast was John Mann, who in the difficult role of Agate Keller was almost perfect, setting a fine pace at the beginning of his famous closing speech and faltering only in his failure to maintain a crescendo of voice until the final cry of "Strike...
...cast for "Waiting For Lefty:" James A. Walker '50 as Fatt; Anthony A. Plano '47, as the Gunman; Theodore P. Allegretti '47 as Joe; Mrs. Helen McCloskey as Edna; Miss Ronnic Feltman as Florence; Ralph P. Katz '48 as Irv; Michael Kahn '46 as Sid; Martin Deutsh '49 as Clayton; Arlene Prigoff as Stan; Palmer Dixon '50 as Phil; Robert L. Weehsler '49 as Dr. Benjamin: John Mahan '49 as Agale...
...Yankees' Larry MacPhail had tried to hire him away from the Dodgers, which MacPhail denied), got a friendly welcome at the airport from Cinemactress Laraine Day, who i) bussed him fondly, 2) announced to the panting press that they were just friends. Promptly another old friend, Powers Model Edna Ryan, now a little confused, rose and pinned a label on him: the Artful Dodger...
...Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair Lewis' Main Street; 1922-A. S. M. Hutchinson's If Winter Comes; 1923-Gertrude Ather-ton's Black Oxen; 1924-Edna Ferber...