Word: ladd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesse Stevens about Hollywood's cowboy-and-Indian movies: "One white guy always managed to kill off a bunch of Indians. They should try hiring some of us sometime so we can show them how real Indians act. I was in a bit part once in an Alan Ladd picture. I got bumped off just like [finger-snap] that...
When this sort of thing was offered to U.S. moviegoers in the first film version (1942) of Graham Greene's thriller, This Gun for Hire, many of them were deeply impressed. It was felt that Hollywood had passed a milestone and that He (Alan Ladd) and She (Veronica Lake) were the latest and the greatest. In the interval, however, most customers have learned, from Hollywood's mistakes, the difference between the touchingly insane and the pathetically inane, and this remake is less apt to frazzle nerves than to tickle funny bones...
Stephen Wailes '59 and Gabrielle Ladd (Wellesley '57) have two poems about nature. Both are suggestive; neither harsh. But neither has much more to say than that the author is depressed. Both have a tendency to discover themselves in the natural order. This is sort of reverse Romanticism which Tennyson reduced to absurdity in In Memoriam, the kind of fabrication through which the reader sees too easily...
...with excitement. She has discovered a piece of ancient Greek sculpture-a golden boy on a bronze dolphin - which has lain for 2,000 years on the floor of the Aegean. Sophia is determined to sell her discovery to the highest bidder, and before long an American archaeologist (Alan Ladd) and an American millionaire (Clifton Webb) are hard in pursuit of whatever it is that Sophia...
...pelagic piffle, of course, but the isles of Greece, in Milton Krasner's color photography, are as lovely as ever they were when the Nereids nested in their shoals. And although, as the archaeological hero, 43-year-old Actor Ladd wears a somewhat too convincing aura of antiquity, he at least manages to make the heroine look as if she can actually act. Not that it matters...