Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ernest Hemingway kept on raising short stories at his farm near Havana while For Whom the Bell Tolls had its première in Manhattan (see p. 55). The producers planned to send a print of the film (99 pounds) down to the farm...
...denials of political censorship, the interminable and ill-explained delays, like those whirs, buzzes and hangings which take place behind the curtain on the night Hamlet turns up drunk in a Hawaiian skirt. The audience was getting restless. But it was still eager. It knew Paramount had in Ernest Hemingway's novel the possibilities of one of the best pictures, greatest popular entertainments and most colossal money-makers ever produced. It wanted to see the new superproduction, the Gone With the Wind with hair on its chest and ideology in its hair. It wanted to see precisely for whom...
...Picture. The lovers and guerrillas and actions in Ernest Hemingway's novel were motivated and given their meaning by political intensities and by depths of human strength, weakness and need which Paramount has seen fit, or been forced, to remove. But the screen version of Ernest Hemingway's novel is still a story of love and violence in the Spanish Civil War. Gary Cooper is Robert Jordan, Hemingway's young Montana schoolteacher who has come to Spain to fight for democracy everywhere. Gary Cooper, over the years, has so cornered the beloved American romantic virtues of taciturnity...
...knowledge of symptoms, scalpels and pills is not enough to make a doctor successful. Ernest L. Boggs has discovered that fact, to his profit. Since 1925, short, dark, stocky, persuasive ex-Salesman Boggs (advertising, automobiles, insurance, candy) has been teaching his Detroit doctor clients how to earn a living. He charges retaining fees of $75 a month to $5,000 a year, depending on the doctor's earning power and the success of the treatment. He fails in one case out of twelve...
...such messages did tall, spectacled, shabby Ernest Frederick Lehmitz, 57, zealous air-raid warden, waiter, and operator of a sailors' boardinghouse, reveal U.S. ship movements to Nazi Intelligence. Spy Lehmitz settled in the U.S. in 1913, worked in the German Consulate in New York during World War I, was classed as a "dangerous alien" but not interned. Naturalized (1924), he went to Germany in 1938, was trained in a Nazi spy school, returned to the U.S. March 27, 1941 ready to work...