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...Laura, the first New Yorker, was married to Henry, a successful radio commentator. Laura was middle-aged and unloved, and "that tooth, that tooth which worried the world, went nibble, nibble, nibble." When Laura timidly mentioned religion to Henry, he chuckled: "Really, Laura. To think your little mind has been chugging away!" Then Laura confided in dashing, suntanned Barry, who said: "What you need is some good lively sex with a real man who'll fling you around the room. . . ." Said Laura: "There must be another way out." "Of course," said Barry crossly, "you might try collecting stamps...
...Reverend Job Tatum, who had risen from the wrong side of the tracks to the pulpit of one of Manhattan's toniest churches. But on Easter Sunday, 1944, when Job intoned his text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life," none of the congregation (which included Gladys, Laura and Nick) knew that Job had suddenly realized that "he did not believe a word of what he was saying...
...marriage, regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...
...eleven-year-old girl, whom he is accused of raping. The girl was one of some 30 or 40 children in his school, the majority of whom had tales to tell which the District Attorney described as "the most depraved stories of immorality I have ever heard." Wife Laura Balles, 35, who described her life with Headmaster Balles as "idyllic bliss," was up to her neck in whatever he was doing to the children...
Fallen Angel (20th Century-Fox) drags its feathers through an hour and a half of melodramatic fiddle-faddle that is just promising enough to sharpen the edge of disappointment. Good direction by Otto (Laura) Preminger and competent acting cannot quite save a picture whose whole is far more trivial than the sum of its individual parts...