Word: lunde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps the butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright silly. But since almost all of Irma's blunders turn out right in the end, the audience is left with...
Temporarily at least, Clift and Douglas have run away from such other promising newcomers as Arthur Kennedy, Richard Basehart, Robert Ryan, John Lund, Farley Granger, Louis Jourdan, Ricardo Montalban and Christopher Kent. One who has not been left behind is Melchor Ferrer (no kin to Broadway's Jose), an experienced actor. His performance in Lost Boundaries, as the Negro doctor who secretly crosses the color line, is one of the year's best. Scarcely a newcomer, but definitely a comer, is Richard Widmark. It took two years and three pictures for 20th Century-Fox to dilute the Widmark...
Skiddy Marden Lund '51, of Newton Center and Adams House, has been named team manager...
...John Lund pushes the plot along when he gets a yen for Lucrezia. "She's a lily!" he cries, in the same tone he would use to say "She's a lulu." Once married to her, he starts composing verses about roses and nightingales in the garden outside her bedchamber. When the poems fail to impress the pouting bride, Lund turns on the nearest nightingale and roars: "You silly ass!" In reply, the soundtrack lets out a squawk like a barnyard...
Just when Lund thinks that his wife has begun to love him, the lily-like Lucrezia tries to do him in with a dollop of poisoned wine. Lund seems to enjoy all this nonsense, but he is the only member of the cast who does. Miss Goddard, trailing around in sumptuous gowns, waits in vain for an opportunity to climb alluringly in & out of a Renaissance...