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Word: fadeouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, he is thanked by the parson "for sparing her." Ted gasps: "Me! and that sanctimonious, psalm-singing little prig! I've never been so insulted in my life!" The idea so unnerves him, in fact, that he gets smashing drunk to drive it out of his mind. Fadeout : Ted at the harmonium, wheezing away at a hymn, and reeking of salvation quite as repulsively as he ever did of booze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...wedding day, Doris leaves Gig at the altar with his ego and elopes with Frankie to a city hovel. There are the usual misunderstandings, more cruel blows from the Fates and an attempted suicide before the happy fadeout around the family piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Jane Powell). She smuggles fried chicken and mince pie into his cell, regales him by singing Small Towns Are Smile Towns, and sneaks him out of jail for a night on New York town. This does not please the playboy's fiancee, Dancing Star Ann Miller. By the fadeout the playboy's 30-day jail sentence has been commuted, and he has the judge's daughter for life. The movie's most striking feature: a dance routine in which leggy Ann Miller taps her way among a disembodied orchestra surrealistically imbedded in a musicomedy stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Such questions are not to be answered lightly, and Lone Hand answers them slowly and laboriously. But Joel is no bad man, pardner. By the fadeout, love, justice, righteousness-as well as Hollywood type-casting-have been vindicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about an American loan to Lichtenburg, but politics yields mostly to gags, pratfalls and love. By the fadeout, Madam Ambassador has not only won the Order of Lichtenburg (which entitles her to be called a Dame-a promotion from Madam), she has also won Lichtenburg's handsome Diplomat Sanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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