Word: inherit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football fans wondered whether Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik had not done even better. Like Leahy, Blaik was called back to his alma mater (from Dartmouth) this year to take over a team of veterans who required unteaching as well as teaching. Like Leahy, he was lucky enough to inherit from last year's freshman ranks one flashy newcomer: Halfback Ralph Hill, who lopes like a gazelle and can stop on a dime. With Hill and a little shuffling of old hands, Blaik, a strict disciplinarian and master strategist, came up with a winning combination. So far, Army...
Hold That Ghost (Universal) is about that haunted house Universal has been making and remaking these many years. It is not much of a house, but Abbott & Costello are in it and that makes it funny. They inherit it from a murdered gangster, refuse to be frightened out of it by the ectoplasmic machinations of their donor's mob, hold on until they hit the jackpot: the dead gangster's fortune cached in a moosehead. This feeble chronicle is considerably enhanced by such sure-fire episodes as greaseball Lou Costello climbing in bed with a ghost...
...seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only to learn that the rich already...
Plumber Wright wanted a girl named Wallie ("Babe") Coughlin to inherit his legacy. But all he knew about her was that he had seen her in 1918 at the age of five, toddling around the stage of a burlesque house in Fort Wayne, Ind. To find her, ads were run in Variety and Billboard. But not until the Court of Missing Heirs took the matter in hand were 240 potential Babes unearthed, of whom only three felt sure enough of their identity to head for Canada to claim the legacy...
Topper's nextdoor neighbors are a houseful of leering, peering evildoers and a pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points...