Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society reporters, combing the guest lists, dug out a tidbit. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy was the only ranking Republican member of a congressional committee who was not invited to one of last week's formal dinners. Reporters hurried over to see Mamie's secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, to ask why McCarthy was not invited. They got a straight answer: because the President and Mrs. Eisenhower did not want...
...Dodge married Julia Jane Jeffers of Charlotte, Mich, and went to live in Detroit, where James Couzens, Michigan's banker-Senator, had given Dodge a bank job. Before long, Dodge's ex-boss, Banking Commissioner Doyle, tapped him to help his son, Tom Doyle, run the nation's largest Dodge auto agency (Joe is no kin to the car-making family...
...restaurant belonging to Anna Mueller (Helen Traubel); when it ends he has made the big time. This thread of a story sews together some patches and snatches from Romberg shows (Maytime, The Desert Song, etc.), most of them super-duper production numbers. Among the performers: Rosemary Clooney, Gene Kelly, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Cyd Charisse, Howard Keel, Tony Martin. All the same, 132 minutes of spectacle is more than any audience can comfortably watch, and it takes all of Ferrer's electric charm and versatility to keep the moviegoer looking at the screen...
...John Wayne the No. 1 box-office draw, although Wayne made only two films eligible in 1954: Hondo and The High and the Mighty. Runners-up: Martin and Lewis, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Marilyn Monroe. Alan Ladd, William Holden (first time to figure in the first ten), Bing Crosby. Jane Wyman (first time), Marlon Brando (first time...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Stanley Donen and Michael Kidd knock off a randandy of a musical, the best since An American in Paris; with Howard Keel, Jane Powell (TIME, July...