Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Featuring the comedy team of Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray, the picture runs through a plentiful series of comic farce scenes without a hitch. They are aided by Roland Young, in the part of a henpecked husband who "wants to be bad," but doesn't know how to go about...
Wendell Willkie began in earnest the long, uphill fight to win the GOPresidential nomination. His special car, so ancient a Pullman that the Union Pacific refused to hitch it to the super-streamlined City of San Francisco, rumbled west from Chicago behind the Overland Limited...
Allied commanders had set May 3, 1943 as the day for the climactic attack on Tunis and Bizerte. At the last moment there was a hitch: bad weather had grounded reconnaissance planes and there were no photographs of the enemy positions. The attack was postponed...
Training on Trains. In his younger days in London, Hitch was an insatiable first-nighter, a sort of rolling encyclopedia of stage lore. Another consuming interest was transportation. He could tell any Thamesside character who would listen the tonnage, type and country of every craft on the Thames. He loves to ride on trains, and two of his best pictures (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes} have thrill ing train sequences...
...signed with David O. Selznick, because he thought Selznick produced Hollywood's best pictures. But he takes no back talk from Selznick. As a result, he fares better than any other Selznick property. Selznick lend-leased Hitchcock to-20th Century-Fox to make Lifeboat for $200,000. Hitch pocketed...