Word: lathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summers the family traveled widely, both in the U.S. and abroad. One summer the three boys were packed off to a ranch in Wyoming. There the cowboys dubbed little Dick "Suds." called Hank "Lather," and Mennen "Soapy." Much to Mrs. Williams' distress. Mennen's nickname stuck with him from that date...
Paula (Columbia) works up a rich soap-opera lather over the problems of its heroine (Loretta Young). She runs down an orphan boy (Tommy Rettig) in her car, and the boy becomes mute as a result of the accident. Childless Paula adopts the boy and sets about teaching him to talk again, although she realizes that once he regains the power of speech he may identify her to the police as the hit-&-run driver. To complicate matters a bit more, the slightest scandal would ruin the chances of Paula's husband (Kent Smith) becoming dean of his college...
...sober analysis, Dwight Taylor's screenplay, with its rich lather of plot manipulation and sentimentality, verges on soap opera. But George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens' direction is clean and uncluttered. Stevens has a camera magic that evokes a world of romantic illusion: the frustrated lovers caught up in a slow mire of overlapping dissolves, of magnificent closeups, of telephones ringing unanswered, of rainswept city streets...
Vincent Price, turned humorist as the lather leviathan, is superb. He dismisses intelligence with the air of someone who has been acquainted with radio and television for a long time. A lampoon of this industry has been a long-time. A lampoon of this industry has been a long-time in coming but director Richard Whorf, known to some as a Shakespearean actor, has allowed the direction to get out of hand. There are too many irrelevancies and not enough of the quip situations in which Mr. Colman can handle himself best. The picture should have run an hour...
...share of the purse was hardly worth picking up. But Citation was back in form again: and that was racing news. Trainer Jones bustled down to the winner's circle to meet his horse as he jogged back, his bay hide splotched with mud and lather. Jimmy crouched, stared anxiously at the foreleg that had long kept Citation idle, and announced with relief: "He's sound . . . When he tells me-as he did a couple of days ago-that he wants to run, I'll run him [again...