Word: irenee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not since Irene Castle bobbed her hair in 1914 had there been such turmoil, twittering and posturing among American women. What was going on? The search for the "New Look." What was the New Look? No one knew precisely.
Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME, Aug. 25).
Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, somewhat stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME, Aug. 25).
As most people know by now, Father (William Powell) is the archetype of the absolute family monarch of the '80s - a man .disinclined to take any lip even from the Almighty Himself. But there is an innocence about his tyranny which excuses the kind way everybody, including the authors...
William Powell, with the help of a fiery wig, looks right as Father and Irene Dunne seems to understand Mother.