Word: garfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four Daughters (John Garfield, Priscilla Lane; TIME...
Four Daughters (John Garfield, Priscilla Lane: TIME...
First half of Four Daughters is pure pastoral. Ann's romance with the composer Felix is getting along gayly when Mickey Borden (John Garfield) hitchhikes out from the city to orchestrate a piece of Felix's music. Ann has never met Mickey's type, dark, rude, bitter as stale tea. On the day she is meant to marry Felix she marries Mickey-a mistake, as cinemaddicts will spot immediately, for Felix is considerably more clean-cut. It takes a year's time and a melodramatic suicide to clear up the situation...
John (formerly Jules) Garfield, like Franchot Tone, J. Edward Bromberg and Luther Adler, went to Hollywood from Manhattan's Group Theatre. In Four Daughters' almost negative cast, he is the sole positive charge...
...there was talk of a National League pennant for the Reds (in third place and only four games behind the League-leading Giants). The club front office was stampeded for tickets. A sportswriter suggested that a statue of Vander Meer replace that of onetime U. S. President James A. Garfield in Garfield Square. In special session at Columbus, the Ohio Senate passed a resolution in "tribute to the newly crowned king of the baseball world...