Word: gruver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significance is embedded in a passionate plea on behalf of miscegenation. Based on James Michener's bestselling switch on John Luther Long's love story, the picture tells the tale of Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), an ace of the Korean war known as "the Air Force's pinup boy," and a Japanese pinup girl named Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), the star of the Matsubayashi vaudeville troupe...
...When he first meets Hana-ogi, he believes that "fraternization is a disgrace to the uniform." But he has to admit that she is "a fahn-lookin' woman," and the color line soon becomes as vague in his mind as the meridian of Greenwich. "I will love you, Gruver-san," she murmurs to him one day, "if that is what you desire." That is what he desires, all right, and after much too much Brandoperatic declamation about "what mah reason fuh livin' is," he decides that he also desires to marry...
Pinkerton, U.S.N., is Major Lloyd Gruver, Air Force jet ace; his Butterfly. Hana-ogi, a dancer. Gruver and Hana-ogi love and lose each other at the color line. With many an audible aside, Author Michener labors the worthy moral of their story: U.S. color snobbery will unfailingly lose friends and alienate people in the Far East...
Brusque, 28-year-old Lloyd Gruver, a West Pointer with seven MIGs to his credit, is ordered by the squadron medic to take a rest in Japan. Confident that he belongs to a superior race, Gruver at first is disgusted to see American boys taking an interest in and even marrying Japanese girls with butterball shapes, burlap dresses and gold teeth. But he soon serves as best man at a Japanese-American wedding, and the groom, an airman from Gruver's outfit, drops a tantalizing hint: "G.I.s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew...
...Fleet was getting the feel of civilian life again. After a visit to his orange grove in Auburndale, Fla., where he sampled this year's crop, he took his wife, daughter-in-law and little grandson, James Van Fleet III, on a visit near the town of Gruver in the Texas Panhandle. His host: former Sergeant Nick Holt, ,his driver and bodyguard in Korea. His entertainment: Texas-style coyote hunting by car and airplane...