Word: gwenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edmund Gwenn, 83, British-born actor who for the last couple of decades invariably played the roles of kindly, puckish old men, won the 1947 Academy Award for best supporting actor as a benign Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street, was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw, who cast him in many of his plays in the early 1900s; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...characters are immediately offensive because they are types incapable of further development. Edmunds Gwenn, as rabbit hunter who fears he has bagged his first man, seems adequate. All of the indecisive funeral conterie suffers in over-acting, and Gwenn appears the most obvious. John Forsythe, surely the least talented and most stupid of Vermont's 15,000 artists, strains in his attempt to "see things" as no one else in the hamlet can. One wishes he were spoofing. Shirley MacLaine's irregular love life seems of little concern to either Forsythe or herself, which is a good thing...
...picture tells how his worth overcame his birth. Put to the pits by a greedy master (Jeff Richards), Wildfire fights his way to the championship of the Bowery before he is overmatched with a bigger dog, and left on the floor half dead. A kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips his haughty old man at the big dog show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female in town...
...Trouble with Harry (Paramount) is the usual trouble with corpses: people can't let dead enough alone. A little boy (Jerry Mathers), playing in the woods, sees Harry first and runs to tell his mother (Shirley MacLaine). A retired tugboat captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry...
...ants, but not the kind one usually shares a picnic with. Caught in a radioactive fallout from an atomic-test explosion at Alamogordo, a desert colony of Camponotus vicinus has suffered mutation into a race of creatures more than ten feet long. They are discovered by Myrmecologist Edmund Gwenn after two people disappear in the desert and two others are found dead with their carcasses full of formic acid...