Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting the sets, Hedda is usually a better show than what is going on in front of the camera. She is a great crowd-pleaser. Her radio warm-up is one of the phenomena of the business. Her personality, italicized by her manic hats, stimulates the autograph hounds. They fawn on her at the studio gates. "Oh, g'wan with you," says Hedda brusquely. "I'm not a celebrity...
...barnlike recording studio in London, a trim, middle-aged actor in a fawn-colored Savile Row suit sat down last week before a microphone. Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he spoke to a technician in the crisp Mayfair accent that is known to theatergoers the world over: "All I want is lots and lots of water to drink and to have a frightful fuss made over me." Noel Coward, 47, was taking his first serious crack at radio...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman support Claude Jarman Jr. and a fawn in a touching, lush-colored story of backwoods boyhood (TIME...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman support Claude Jarman Jr. and a fawn in a touching, lush-colored story of backwoods boyhood (TIME...
Faithful to the novel, the film tells the simple story of a small boy named Jody Baxter and his pet fawn. After suffering a few heartaches, the boy grows older. The plot's minor themes examine the young'-un's sweet-spirited, poverty-ridden parents, who scratch a hard living from the none-too-good earth of Florida's scrub country...