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Jane Cowl, 64, veteran of 38 years on Broadway, decided to stop resisting; she signed up to act in the movies for the first time since The Spreading Dawn in 1917 (in 1943's Stage Door Canteen she played herself). Her role: the managing mama of Robert Montgomery...
...favorite subject of Britain's poorer gentlefolk-the ancient and glorious past of the withered family tree. Impoverished Father Doyle claimed a relationship with the ducal house of Brittany. Little Arthur spent many of his juvenile hours memorizing the family coats-of-arms, while his plucky mama briskly scrubbed the floor and called out knightly maxims: "Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak!" "Chivalry towards all women, of high or low degree...
...Treasure of Sierra Madre, MGM's The Search and J. Arthur Rank's The Red Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan and Denmark's Day of Wrath...
...Mama had scarcely had time to read the letter before the news was out. The Democrats had nominated her son for governor by acclamation. Mama wrote Franklin: "Eleanor telephoned me before I got my papers that you have to 'run' for the Governorship. Well, I am sorry if you do not feel that you can do it without too much self sacrifice, and yet if you run I do not want you to be defeated...
...Mama did not have to worry about that. He was not defeated then or ever again...