Word: holt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magnificent Ambersons (Anne Baxter. Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt; TIME, July...
...cast, in which Orson Welles does not appear, are all good actors with difficult roles to perform. Dolores Costello and Tim Holt, as her spoiled son, present the central conflict of the plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like...
...Magnificent Ambersons (Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt; TIME, July...
...dynasty (in 1873) is sharp-trading Major Amberson (Richard Bennett), who has become so rich that the magnificence of the Ambersons stands out in their little clapboard town like a plaid suit at a funeral. Last and worst of the clan is spoiled, arrogant Grandson George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who gets his deserved "comeuppance" (in 1912) from the new industrialism which his baronial mind can neither understand nor tolerate...
...stimulate U.S. medical research in Latin America, Journalist Charles Morrow Wilson has published an account of its diseases, called Ambassadors in White (Henry Holt; $3.50). The book contains biographies of U.S. yellow-fever "ambassadors" (Gorgas, Reed, Finlay, Noguchi) and strange tales of native doctors. Its descriptions of unfamiliar tropical diseases may be startling to U.S. readers. Some of them...