Word: kittens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without Malarkey. His stomach would begin to churn and his brown eyes got watery and bloodshot. Normally calm and pleasant, he changed into a grouch. Says Mel: "I feel weak-weak as a kitten -when I walk on the field. I feel too tired to warm up, and I don't warm up much. Not as much as other fellows." U.S.C. Coach Dean Cromwell (now head coach of the Olympic track team), who has a reputation for inspiring his athletes with well-chosen malarkey, never goes near...
...Lana Turner to run wild. She wallops a home run in a softball game, gawks at a specimen of modern art in New York, loses her temper four times, and even leaps from a moving automobile. Through all of this, Spencer Tracy plows doggedly ahead. His scenes with a kitten--cats make him sneeze--are about the only ones that really click. The kitten, however, is too often gerrymandered out of the spotlight in favor of the heroine, who suffers by comparison. And placed side by side with Lewis's somewhat shallow novel, so does the picture...
...Briefly, the movie niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders into her dream, effects a gentle transfer of her affects to his own living person...
These absent-minded students provide the bureau with it's least interesting material. Although nothing really sensational has ever turned up, there are such diverse articles there now as an old mortarboard, several neckties, and an assortment of sweaters, aigrette lighters and cases. "Last year we had a kitten in here, but no one ever claimed it," Miss Delano confides, "so we finally had to get rid of the thing...
Last week the Farmer limped into Falmouth with 60% of her precious food cargo undamaged. The Americans had found a black and white kitten on board, had promptly named her Neversink...