Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defended by Arthur M. Fitzgerald, able, liberal Springfield attorney, the miners could not deny the dynamitings but they vigorously denied responsibility for them. Behind the Government's prosecution they saw the heavy fist of John L. Lewis. Testimony showed that expenses of many a Government witness were paid not by the Government but by unknown persons, and the Progressives suspected John Lewis' United Mine Workers. One Government witness, a convicted murderer, could boast that John Lewis had intervened to get him paroled. Among the defendants there was also a convicted murderer. The Government produced a witness...
...event, when Joe Kennedy and his wife, daughter of Boston's onetime Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald, arrive in London with a quorum of their nine children, an old tradition of U. S. diplomacy will have been broken: for the first time in history, a U. S. Ambassador to Britain will be 1) Irish and 2) Catholic. Career Man. Ambassador William E. Dodd's departure from Berlin has long been foreshadowed by his open, undiplomatic detestation of Nazi methods, which reached its climax last summer, when he publicly protested against the State Department's granting of permission...
Three adventurers-a discredited sea captain (Oscar Homolka), a sniveling, cadging, little cockney (Barry Fitzgerald) and an English remittance man (Ray Milland) whose remittances have stopped coming-commandeer a Sydney-bound schooner, deprived of its crew by plague, and set off for South America to sell their stolen cargo and invest in mines. Their fates and that of Frances Farmer (a studio addition to the passenger list) are determined by a stop-over at an uncharted South Pacific island ruled with a rifle by a religious madman (Lloyd Nolan...
Although Actor Homolka mars his early sequences by facial displays known as mugging, he finally brings his role under the control that distinguished his work in British films (Rhodes, A Woman Alone). Pug-faced, whimsical Barry Fitzgerald, Hollywood recruit from Ireland's Abbey Players, mugs too, but mugging, reckless shadow boxing and a cinemaddiction to strong drink are the Fitzgerald stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro...
Stevenson's story is common knowledge. Suffice it to say that Oscar Homolka, as the liquor beridden skipper who lost his ship and his papers while suffering from overmuch tipping of the bottle, is at times excellent and at times downright boring. Barry Fitzgerald, as the disreputable cockney, almost holds the picture up on his own shoulders only to damp it by horribly overacting. Ray Milland and Miss Farmer supply the love interest, but neither get very excited over their emotion; in fact the former does not know how to walk on the screen, let alone act. As a mugger...