Word: hawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swing Shift tells the story of a young woman Kay Walsh (Goldie Hawn), who marries her high-school sweetheart, Jack (Ed Harris), only to find her blissful newlywed life disrupted by the reality of World War II. With the outbreak of war, Jack immediately enlists in the Marines. When Jack leaves, Kay gets a job at a factory which makes fighter planes and works the late swing shift with hundreds of other newly employed women. At the factory she meets and eventually falls in love with one of the line leaders. Lucky (Kurt Russell), who was turned down...
...personal tragedy of the war, including the loss of family members and the struggle of women to support their families, handled with any sense of urgency or credibility. As Goldie Hawn stands in line for her job interview, a woman wearing white gloves and looking as if she just emerged from the beauty parlor turns to Kay and says. "I really need this job, I've got a kid to feed...
...performances of Hawn, Russel, and Christine Lahti, who plays Kay's best friend, that offer the only real enjoyment in the film. Kay develops a close friendship with an ex-singer and fellow factory worker named Hazel (Lahti) and the two become inseparable. Through her relationship with both Hazel and Lucky, as well as her newfound independence. Kay changes from a prudish Kewpie- doll like character to a more assertive, sensitive woman. Goldie Hawn's earnest and expressive face frequently compensates for the film's many weaknesses...
...been social butterflies on the Washington scene. I have not courted the opinion makers in Washington or New York socially, the way you're "supposed to." He has, however, cultivated friends in Hollywood since his McGovernite days. His more glamorous backers include Beatty, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Goldie Hawn and Margaux Hemingway. In Washington he keeps close ties to influential reporters. For about a year before his most recent reconciliation with Lee, he lived at the home of Bob Woodward, the Washington Post investigative reporter who helped break open Watergate...
...shot into prominence within the dangerous discipline of television sketch comedy. From TV's long and distinguished list of skitcom graduates, the few who made a successful transition to movie stardom were usually those who had created and sustained their own ingratiating personalities on the small screen: Goldie Hawn's daffy blond, Chevy Chase's overage preppie. Bill Murray's blitzed-out party guy. The other group-the inspired mimics who hid themselves behind the galaxy of comic characters they portrayed-looked both stretched and cramped when, in a movie, they were required to inhabit only...