Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left to individual enterprise. For the climax, on stage at Medinah Temple, a new Imperial Potentate (sometimes referred to as the "Pote") would be named. This year he was no less a person than Harold Clayton Lloyd, of Burchard, Neb. and Los Angeles, Calif., better known as the comedian hero of such Jazz Age films as The Freshman, Safety Last and Grandma...
...Hero in Spectacles. Lloyd's career is the story of the triumph of sobriety. In 1917 he conceived the movie character which was to make him a fortune. Before that he had been an average American boy with a passion for the stage and magic tricks, who grew up to be a struggling young comedian in one-reel movie farces. At first he played a ragged, mustached character called Lonesome Luke, which he now admits was a poor imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Then he bought a pair of glassless horn-rimmed spectacles (his eyesight is fine) and studied...
...Great Sinner (MGM) is an expensive bloom resulting from some curious cross-pollination between Dostoevsky's The Gambler, elements of Dostoevsky's own life, and a few Hollywood afterthoughts. Like Dostoevsky, the hero of the story is a young Russian novelist (Gregory Peck) who is given to long gambling bouts in German spas, and to falling fits and visionary religious enthusiasms...
Like Alexei Ivanovich, the hero of The Gambler, he is also in love with the proud, cynical daughter (Ava Gardner) of a corrupt Russian general (Walter Huston) who has sold himself and his daughter as tools of an unprincipled Frenchman (Melvyn Douglas...
Wilson," he has instead hidden his light under a bale of mistresses and drowned his talent in gallons of Canadian Club. Through almost the whole of this novel, Hero Baxter is at odds with himself, is in constant danger of being unable to keep his seat on a barstool, or is busy escaping the hot clutches of girl friends and trollops. Through it all, Baxter permits the reader to share his every picayune thought and gesture, e.g., "He dropped the match. It fell-thhhh-into the cuspidor...