Word: foch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy puttering about among his orchids and potted petunias until the government sends him off on a mission. His job: to ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine music and archery. Macready, even with his handsome quiver of arrows, is no match for Raft...
This week, the Big Four Foreign Ministers walked into the red marble "grand salon" of the Palais Rose, on Paris' majestic Avenue Foch. Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky came in side by side with Britain's Ernie Bevin. Vishinsky laid his papers down on the huge green conference table, then quickly walked up to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, shook his hand. "I am glad to see you again," said Vishinsky. It was noted that the Russian grinned amiably...
Dick Powell, Hollywood's prettiest tough guy, is cast as a tinhorn gambler with a heart of pure gold. As junior partner in a plushy gambling house, he is suspected of the murder of a crooked cop (Jim Bannon) and the cop's girl (Nina Foch). Powell can take some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such...
...spring all right. Ethel Barrymore, 67, picked the St. Louis Cards and the Boston Red Sox to win pennants again. Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic Soprano Helen Traubel Miss Symphonic Matinee of 1947 and gave her an autographed baseball. Veteran Muralist Dean Cornwell reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden...
...Nina Foch, a pretty and talented repatriate from Hollywood, tries hard to carry the show through its weaker moments, and is ably abetted by wry Tom Ewell and by Loring Smith, whose Senator McKinley is rather more credible than the current vogue. But the play's high spot was the curtain call comedy, and the Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein--backers this time--won't be able to count on enough of them to make it quite worthwhile...