Word: marcellus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lloyd mastered the trick. The Robe (Christ's cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...
...Died. Marcellus Elliot Foster, 71, crusading Texas editor; in Houston. Founder and for 25 years editor-publisher of the Houston Chronicle (which he sold to Jesse H. Jones in 1926), he fought the Klan when it was in its political heyday in Texas...
...good job he did with the Falcon, the Brothers Warner have slipped John Marcellus Huston the rewarding assignment of directing the studio's neurotic Bernhardt, Bette Davis, in her next picture. A son who does not much resemble his celebrated father, Actor Walter Huston (see p. 98), young (35) Huston not only directed Falcon but also wrote the script for it. Seldom has a new director made such a ten-strike on his first picture. Sometime actor, painter, prize fighter, Hollywood scenarist, Mexican Army cavalryman, John Huston accepted only a slight assist from his father in his new venture...