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Word: gardners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentimental sort of radiation romance, in which the customers are considerately spared any scenes of realistic horror, and are asked instead to accept the movie notion of what is really horrible about the end of the world: boy (Gregory Peck) does not get girl (Ava Gardner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...this atmosphere, an Australian girl (Gardner) and a U.S. submarine captain (Peck) fall in love. But Greg cannot let himself go with Ava because, even though he knows his wife and kiddies are dead along with everybody else in North America, "I can't accept it." Ava runs off to find consolation with a scientist fellow (Fred Astaire). "I have nobody," she sobs. "I'm afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...make the most dangerous conceivable situation in human history seem rather silly and science-fictional. The players look half dead long before the fallout gets them. But what could any actors make of a script that imagines the world's end as a scene in which Ava Gardner stands and wistfully waves goodbye as Gregory Peck sails sadly into the contaminated dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson has three excellent foil men in Dave Johnson, the captain, Larry Johnson, and Phil Charat--men whom Marion judges more than competent to offset Gardner's absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marion Says Training Program Should Improve Fencing Squad | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

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