Word: mama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mama (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS). Period comedy set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, with Peggy Wood...
...Mama Will Bark (Frank Sinatra & Dagmar; Columbia). A canine switch on Baby It's Cold Outside; also the year's low, so far, for coyly off-color novelties...
Meanwhile, the rest of the family fiddle at their own futilities. Pierre's wife has a tepid flirtation; Mama Lasquin is pleasantly excited to discover that the departed Papa Lasquin has had a mistress; Papa's brother-in-law appropriates the mistress...
...social scale, but just as disorganized. Papa Ancelot, a shoestring operator in the stock market, rails at his giddy daughters for going around with gigolos. But the daughters have found that they can distract Papa from his tirades by pushing him into the receptive arms of the housemaid. Mama and daughters work up fervors over Russian films, talk yearningly about the coming French revolution. One daughter guesses that 500,000 heads will fall. "I find [the idea] breathtakingly pure," replies Mama Ancelot...
...Something Important." Some critics argue that Actress Bel Geddes was a downright flop in pictures. The fact is that she was neither a success nor a failure. As the daughter in Mama, Barbara did well enough to be nominated for an Oscar.† She was distinctive in none of her pictures, but in none was she disastrous. Like a diamond in the wrong setting, she seemed simply to have lost the special radiance that marked her on the stage. In the proper setting, the radiance was quick to return...