Word: gwenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lily Rons, Gertrude Lawrence, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Bert Lytell, Edmund Gwenn, Lenore Lonergan all climbed into brocades to whoop it up for United China Relief at the opening of Manhattan's Burma Road Mart...
...half the life in The Wookey comes from Edmund Gwenn, an actor with a capacity for making mediocre parts seem masterpieces of playwriting. In the cinema Foreign Correspondent, as an eerie minor villain who tried to push hero Joel McCrea off a tall tower, in The Earl of Chicago as a gentleman's gentleman who looked after gangster Robert Montgomery, he stole whole scenes from the principals. But as Mr. Wookey he steals nothing; the play is handed to him and he runs away with...
...Night in Lisbon (Paramount). They (Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll) meet in an empty air-raid shelter in London. He is a self-consciously cute American busily flying bombers to Britain. She is a rich and proper English girl dutifully chauffeuring a War Office Earl (Edmund Gwenn). He swears they made this date 10,000 years ago. She is baffled. He makes duck calls at her. She flees...
...investigate his new-found property and ferret out the union leaders who hanged him, dyspeptic J. P. disguises himself as a clerk in his shoe department. He finds out a lot he never knew about people who have to work for a living. A pompous section manager (Edmund Gwenn) rules him with acidulous tyranny. A comely young clerk, Mary Jones (Jean Arthur), tries to teach him the tricks of the trade, lends him 50? when she interprets his remark about never eating lunch to mean that he is broke...
Pride & Prejudice (Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland. Edna May Oliver, Melville Cooper, Edmund Gwenn; TIME, July...