Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem posed is that of a colored girl who is able to pass for white. she has been trained as a nurse in the north, and has fallen in love with a white doctor. When she returns to the South to escape the obvious complications of her attachment, she is bequeathed the estate of an old lady whom she nurses and later wins a court fight to gain possession of it. Her choice is between working among her people in the south, or going off with the doctor, who has pursued her, to start life anew...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy 'Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...
Most of the predictions were made with a big "if" predicated on the strikes. Midway through his nationwide tour to check up on the economy, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer cheerily reported: "Sales in the retail clothing lines and shoes have fallen off in the last two weeks . . . [But] unless the steel and coal strikes are prolonged . . . there is no reason why the recent upward trends in business should not continue...
...Selznick Releasing Organization had turned down a chance to book the British-made The Fallen Idol into Manhattan's 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, instead waited patiently to put it into the 550-seat Sutton theater, where the British-made Quartet was in its 28th week...
...East Coast's Trans-Lux theater chain had shocked the industry by passing up Walt Disney's Ichabod and Mr. Toad in favor of The Fallen Idol for its Washington house...