Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a "very great personal honor; when a marshal takes off his ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower. The plain granite headstone marked "Eisenhower" was surrounded by dry, brown grass, and a worried frown crossed Ike's face. "Can't we do something about this old buffalo grass?" he asked...
...swearing. Richard Widmark drove his submaraine to Hell and High Water, while Allan Ladd was frozen in Hell Below Zero. Currently, some Italians have been renamed Hell Raiders of the Deep (an earlier, more ingenuous Widmark was content with the term "frogman" in the same line of work). Ida Lupino has also released a bit of whimsy called, for little reason, Private Hell 36. These are not good films...
Private Hell 36 (Filmakers) is a family picture-in a peculiarly Hollywoodsy sense. The romantic leads, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff, are Mr. & Mrs. in private life, but in the picture they make love to different people. Furthermore, the picture was produced by Collier Young, Ida's next-to-last husband and still her partner in Filmakers. Inc. This perhaps partly explains why Steve Cochran, who has never been married to Actress Lupino, keeps darting uneasy glances over his shoulder while he bounces her around on the studio couch...
...detective sergeant who makes nickels and dimes, Steve has a hard time keeping up with Ida, who has a way of demanding folding money. So when Steve catches up with 300 stolen Gs, he turns in only about 226. The balance is just enough to buy him a slab in the morgue, but before they put him on it, he and Ida, as cop and suspect, have some amusing repartee-for-two (He, menacingly: "What did you do [with that man] for that money?" She, innocently: "I sang Smoke Gets in Your Eyes five times...
...filling George Raft's hairpiece; and Actress Lupino, as is to be expected from a member of one of the oldest families in the British theater, flounces through her part with the sad little flourish of a hat-check girl in a customer's mink. And Ida can flounce with a verve that would have delighted Grandpa Lupino, known as "Old George," who held the 19th century record for successive toe spins...