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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Lone Star | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

Despite this trite ending, Gable and Miss Gardner combine to make Lone Star entertaining even for those suffering from a surfeit of Westerns. Also at Loew's Louis Haywood staggers through a conventional horror-thriller, The Son of Dr. Jekyll...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Lone Star | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

...Universal-International) pictures the rise of a brash but likable young crooner to the special fame that only bobbysoxers can bestow. Apart from romantic and melodramatic trimmings that it borrows elsewhere, the story cribs so freely from the career and personality of Frank Sinatra that fans may expect Ava Gardner to pop up in the last reel. What sharpens the illusion is the playing of Crooner Danny Wilson by Crooner Sinatra himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Despite last season's scandals, basketball's future seemed assured. Kansas State Coach Jack Gardner, after a happy look at his team's whopping attendance figures, summed up the general optimism:"There's a lot of air in that ball. It'll bounce back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball's Big Ten | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Three Crimson skiers placed in the Fronconia Ski Club's Class B slalom on Sunday. While Dartmouth's Jim Porath finished first, Ernie Dane, Harrison Gardner, and Noel Scullin took 23rd, 33rd, and 42nd spots, in that order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Dane, Gardner, Scullin Place in Franconia Club Slalom | 1/29/1952 | See Source »

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