Word: ladd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Dahlia serves this old wine in up-to-date glassware. Its story (by Raymond Chandler): a newly discharged veteran (Alan Ladd), suspected of his wife's murder, goes up against most of the law & disorder in Hollywood before he discovers who killed her. The cynical crispness of atmosphere, character, and knowledge of the cold half-world, roughly approximated in films like Double Indemnity and Murder, My Sweet, has seldom been excelled since the early 1930s...
Retirement: William Edwards Ladd as William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery, becoming William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery, Emeritus. --Harvard University Gazette, February...
...Tomorrow (Paramount), Alan Ladd's first picture since his discharge from the Army, presents Loretta Young as a deaf New England mill-town patrician and Mr. Ladd as the doctor who works to cure her deafness. Her deafness is figurative as well as literal. In its literal aspect, being merely the result of meningitis and the despair of specialists the world over, it offers no insuperable difficulty. Figuratively, it is a more stubborn case...
...arms has, even at its silliest, some basis in truth. It is by no means new 1) to identify this skirmishing of the sexes with class warfare, 2) to resolve all class distinctions in the clinch. The one thing that gives this thousandth version any novelty is Alan Ladd's triple-chilled proficiency at handling all the tricks of making love in reverse gear. This is as interesting to look at, in a simpleminded way, as someone drinking a glass of beer standing on his head. But it probably takes a great deal more talent...
...Alan Ladd, the cinema's percussion-captious tough guy, discharged by the Army as too brittle last fall, was called for a retake, rumored fit to be retaken...