Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necked costumes; Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck as a couple of millionaire ranchowner's sons, one all good, the other all bad. A flock of other high-priced pieces of cinema talent help add to the expense account, if not overly much to the quality of the film-Herbert Marshall, for instance, though listed prominently in the cast, makes only a fleeting appearance in two or three scenes in the first reel before being killed...
...Herbert and his handful of Oppositionists could have kept the House voting all night. But at i a.m. they gave up the hopeless fight and did not return to the floor. Laborites, who had been yawning and sprawling on their benches, came to life. Mrs. Bessie Braddock, a Liverpool Laborite, did a victory dance across the green carpet, triumphantly plumped her plumpness on the Tory bench where Winston Churchill usually sits...
Alec's first screen role - Herbert Pocket in Dickens' Great Expectations - decided him that here was the life. He promptly hired an agent to rustle him up some more movie jobs, preferably "a Hollywood picture for the good it does one - not financial especially, but for one's reputation." His agent's impression: "There's no bloody nonsense about Alec...
Screen Guild Players (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, with Loretta Young and Herbert Marshall...
...editor of International Scientific Series, Youmans had talked Herbert Spencer into writing a book for him. Excited by The Study of Sociology that Spencer sent him, he talked the Appletons into starting the magazine so as to run Spencer's book serially. Two years later Spencer wrote him: "I think you ought to be satisfied if ... you have reached a circulation of 12,000. ... I am rather inclined to shake my head when you talk about making it more popular...