Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toby Green put down the phone and wept...
...industrialist who the week before had made a vague speech recognizing the existence of "difficulties." Meanwhile the terror kept up against the Moroccans themselves. One wealthy local merchant was cornered in his garage and riddled with machine-gun fire. Another was killed as he drove to work in his green Ford Anglia. It was broad daylight and two Casablanca cops were standing nearby. Both denied seeing a thing...
...England in 1920 to compete at Henley. But the Henley committee ruled that he could not compete because he had once "worked with his hands" and was therefore not a "gentleman." He went on to the Olympics, where he soundly thrashed the Henley winner, and triumphantly sent his sweaty green rowing cap to King George V of England with his compliments. The moment his son John B. Jr. ("Kell") was born in 1927, Jack resolved that he would win at Henley; he began training the boy personally at the age of seven. In 1947 Kell righted an old wrong done...
...give it up," says her mother. Snorts Father Kelly: "Those movie people lead pretty shallow lives." The "Clean" Way. But Grace knew what she wanted. To assure her independence, she got a job modeling, was soon making $400 a week posing for Ipana, beer ads, Old Golds. Photographer Ruzzie Green describes her as "what we call 'nice clean stuff' in our business. She's not a top model and never will be. She's the girl next door. No glamour, no oomph, no cheesecake. She has lovely shoulders but no chest. Grace is like Bergman...
...Grace's admirers fear that M-G-M may do to her what the studio did to Deborah Kerr-lash her down to "lady" roles and keep her there. Even after The Country Girl, the best M-G-M could think of was to assign Grace to Green Fire (which she did as her part of the bargain on Country Girl} and then offer her Quentin Durward. Grace, who sees the satin-lined trap as clearly as anyone, refused the Durward part after reading the script. "All the men can duel and fight...