Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life Sentence. The trouble often begins in the cradle, pediatricians and psychiatrists said, when an overanxious mother forces a full baby to take the last ounce of formula. Stuffing children through adolescence fixes a lifetime habit...
Houston's hard-drinking, risk-taking Oilman Glenn McCarthy has a habit of making comebacks just when things look blackest. Once, when he had gone $1,500,000 in the red, and a creditors' committee had taken over his affairs, he didn't even have the $20,000 needed to finish the mansion he was building. Then, from an oilman he scarcely knew, came a check for $50,000 and a note: "Pay me when you can." McCarthy finished his mansion and launched new oil explorations that made him millions...
...misnomer for Actor Glenn Ford in this harebrained little comedy. Ford plays a Milquetoastish Montana lawyer who migrates to Los Angeles with his wife (Ruth Roman) and three children. There he finds himself preparing for the California bar examination with blonde Fellow Student Nina Foch, who has a habit of boning up on criminal law while attired in off-the-shoulder lounging pajamas. There is also Denise Darcel, an amorous French nightclub singer who wears low-cut dresses and is under the impression that Ford is a talent scout...
...affidavit, Ingrid charged that Pia's father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, "told me it delighted him to see me cry and suffer." Spluttered the doctor: "I don't want the child exposed to Rossellini. He ran away with the mother of my child. He seems to have a habit of living with mistresses while married to someone else. It has been quoted in the United States Senate that he is a drug addict. . ." From Rome, Rossellini shot off an outraged message to the Los Angeles judge, demanded a chance to counter Lindstrom's "calumnies." The judge gave...
...shaking the foundations of many of Beverly Hills' swank shacks. The results can do the industry no harm. It has suffered a bad five years. Although slow to come back, this picture hints that its top technical skill, combined with some fresh imagination, will make the nation-wide habit of moviegoing once more a rewarding experience...