Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what cinemaddicts saw in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman who simply looked and acted the way any grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love...
With Madame Curie, the new cinematic element embodied by Miss Garson is finally isolated. The Ideal Woman is at last presented in simple cinemapotheosis. Greer Garson is Her greatest, indeed Her exclusive, Prophet...
Baby Bluestocking. A somewhat precocious child was mother to this Ideal Woman. Little Miss Garson was high-strung, bronchitic, given to fainting spells, and ill at ease with her nasty little peers (who called her Ginger). At an age when the average young Neanderthaler is spelling out "I HATE BOOKS," Greer was already too old for Alice in Wonderland. She sprinkled her porridge with table talk from succés d'estime like Colley Gibber and His Circle. "I was," she recalls, "rather a stuffy child...
...except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
Malaria and shock from Guadalcanal, where he won Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift's citation of "an ideal Marine," dictated Lou Diamond's more pedestrian assignment...