Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the first few plays: The Corn Is Green, with Jane Cowl; The Barretts of Wimpale Street, with Basil Rathbone; On Borrowed Time, with Boris Karloff; Little Women, with Joan Caulfield...
Died. Dr. Alice Salomon, 76, pioneer social worker and suffragist (the "Jane Addams of Germany") who was exiled by the Nazis in 1937; in Manhattan...
Pitfall (Regal Films; United Artists) is the sort of melodrama in which an ordinary guy gets into extraordinary trouble. The guy (Dick Powell), a claims adjuster for an insurance firm, is a happy homebody with a wife (Jane Wyatt) and child (Jimmy Hunt). But duty requires Dick to investigate a Pitfall (Lizabeth Scott). He spends a fervid evening with her and even kisses her, right in front of the camera. This dalliance generates plot complications that put one man in the morgue and another in the hospital. As the picture ends, it is clear that Dick's wife...
...Date with Judy (MGM) features a song called Strictly on the Corny Side, which might serve as the movie's theme song. Date has a few moments of appealing teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery...
...Lonely Heart. In Clearfield, Pa., Mrs. Margaret Jane Redden, 82, and John D. Lewis, 81, who have had 25 children by previous marriages, announced: "This time we're marrying for companionship...