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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honest cop (Glenn Ford) defies his superiors by poking into the affairs of a big-shot gangster (Alexander Scourby) who seems implicated in a suicide. The bad men retaliate by planting a bomb in Ford's car. but blow up his wife (Jocelyn Brando) by mistake. Aided by Gloria Grahame. a lady of uncertain virtue who has been disfigured by one of the gangsters, Ford quits the police force and begins a one-man vendetta against Scourby that winds up in the usual litter of dead bodies and mass arrests. Since all the other characters are merely carbon copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). A new once-a-month series, with Gloria De Haven and Phil Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...studio scene). On his first show, he gabbed with Brooklyn Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella (just home from busting up the third World Series game) about his six kids, his baseball trophies and the good life in Queens, N.Y. That done, Murrow switched to Conductor Leopold Stokowski and his wife, Gloria Vanderbilt, who strolled about their Manhattan apartment explaining Gloria's paintings, flipping through a family photograph album, and showing off Stokowski's music room, which was cluttered with a collection of gongs (Gloria obligingly banged one). Although Murrow's intention to show "extraordinary people doing ordinary things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Shows, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

This Is Show Business (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS). Clifton Fadiman, George S. Kaufman, Sam Levenson, Gloria Swanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...George, Novelist Isaac Rosenfeld tells a memorable story of psychological exhibitionists at a Greenwich Village drinking party. When one of them, a girl named Gloria, turns into a physical exhibitionist by doffing all her clothes, good old George, the steadiest character in the room, saves what is left of decorum by making a circus-style departure that shakes even Gloria out of her pose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrow Smorgasbord | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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