Word: ely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kazan's most important contribution to the film, apart from getting remarkable performances from his actors, was to turn Williams' sweaty study of degeneracy into a comedy. Always searching for humor among the dirt, Kazan has his principals--Carroll Baker, as Baby Doll, Karl Malden, as Meighan, and Eli Wallach, as Vacarro--explore the comic sides of their characters. His direction is brilliant and the three performers, who give unanimously superb performances, prove once and for all that Kazan's rather nervous brand of naturalistic acting is quite suitable for comedy. The director's interpretation unquestionably improves the script, even...
...daintily phrases it, "ready for marriage." Frustrated in both business and pleasure, Archie goes berserk one night and burns down the syndicate gin. The rest of the picture describes, with a degree of Priapean detail that might well have embarrassed Boccaccio, how the syndicate's manager (Eli Wallach) gets his revenge; he not only seduces Baby Doll, but persuades her to give him evidence that it was Archie who burned down...
...father, Arthur, was a Navy captain), MacArthur chose the Foreign Service at the age of twelve after a Far East trip on which he was impressed by U.S. consular officials. At Yale ('32) he studied history and economics, played guard on the 1931 football team captained by Eli's "Little Blue Boy," Albie Booth. MacArthur entered the Foreign Service in 1935, served in Vancouver, Naples, Paris, Lisbon and Vichy, where he was interned by the Germans in 1942. Exchanged 16 months later, he encountered a Vichy official, gave a pointed reason for being underweight: "You would probably have...
Yale end Paul Lopata was unanimously placed on the team and three other members of the Ivy championship eleven were also chosen. Eli captain John Owseichik, all-Ivy center last year, was selected, along with Metropoulos, for the guard spot...
...been feared, the Crimson flanks, weak all season, could not hold the Eli running attack. The Blue collected 243 yards on the ground, and the great majority of these were around the ends, or inside of them...