Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born and bred in this America of ours. I want to love it. I love a part of it. But it's up to the rest of America when I shall love it with the same intensity that I love . . . suffering people the world over, in the way that I deeply and intensely love the Soviet people. That burden of proof rests upon America...
When Palooka first fell in love with Ann (she was 16, he was 17), he told her: "I certny wunt have youse marry me until I kin give youse ever'thing in the world." Today he talks almost as elegantly as Gene Tunney. In 19 years, Joe has also grown older (he is now 24), taller and heavier. But he is just as clean-living, unsophisticated, tolerant and red-blooded an American as ever, and as innocent as if he never had a man-to-man talk about life with Man-about-Manhattan Fisher. Palooka is still world...
...clutch. He had taken a salary cut (from last year's $87,000), because he finished 1948 with only 19 victories. "The way the wolves howled, you might think that was bad," he says, defensively, "and they're howling harder this year. The crapehangers love to bury me. They think I'm making more money than I should...
...true," complained Writer-Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, "that a real-estate operator whose chief concern should be taking gum off carpets and checking adolescent love-making in the balcony-isn't it true that this man is in control [of] ... the motion-picture industry...
Especially pointless is the sluggish little romance between Esther, a former swimming champion who has become a manufacturer of beach wear, and Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float...