Word: esther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betty Grable are a tough-to-beat combination, especially when they have a half-dozen good tunes to plug. Of course the pleasant renditions of the leading ladies make them as good as new. Jack Oakie helps the show along with some skillful bits of light comedy and Esther Ralston, who was a star about half the length of time ago that the songs were hits, makes a short but sensational appearance. The plot is much older than the songs, but it is unimportant...
...left his home town, Libya Hill, Old Catawba (North Carolina), to become a famous writer in Manhattan. Much of The Web and the Rock was taken up with the fits & starts and impassioned prose of a love affair between would-be Writer George and wealthy, married, Jewish Scene Designer Esther Jack. When love threatened to supersede writing, George fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after George's return. But the novel is only incidentally about George and Esther. It is about: 1) the publication of George's first novel, Home...
...Ranch, Clifford Fischer's Les Folies Bergère, and other popular holdovers from last year; the new America! Cavalcade of a Nation, a historical pageant of the U. S., and Billy Rose's Aquacade, a west coast edition, without Eleanor Holm but with equally shapely Aquabelle Esther Williams and 50,000 gallons more water...
...Drake, Winchester Curtis A. Bush Ruth Thomas, Wellesley Evan Calkins Jean Fitz, Brookline Sherman B. Cawley Dorothy Warren, Beaver Jean de Chadenedes Ethel Frye, New York John B. Chadwick Alice Ely, Farmington Vincent J. Charte, Jr. Edith Barnes, Middleton Charles F. Choate Josette Daley, New York William W. Cleveland Esther Stevens, Simmons John MacG. Cochrane Harriet Hayes, Simmons Richard J. Comey Posy Kent, Brookline Eliot J. Connor Phyllis M. Dunn, New Bedford Edward H. Cook Myra Martin, New York Paul W. Cook Lorraine Salsmen, Radcliffe James F. Cooney Mary Frances Northrup, Hopedale Gilbert Corwin Elaine McCune, Bradford Junior College Gerard...
...manages an accidental murder by the girl's sweetheart, a boy who works in a tourist camp, creates one or two unforgettable moments of suspense as the boy successfully hides his crime. But then he goes soft on the whole thing in a happy ending for which Aunt Esther conveniently turns out to have a heart of gold...