Word: margarete
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...beliefs, and she had paid for expressing them. A non-Communist liberal, she had denounced the House Committee on Un-American Activities and been gray-listed from Hollywood acting jobs in the early '50s. Robert Young reinstated her into the American family when he engaged her to play Margaret Anderson on the TV version of FKB, which he?d done on radio since...
...kids are bred on cynicism. But back then, to me, growing up in a nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American Family might have mirrored real life for younger kids, but with the accent on the positive, not the corrosive...
...typical plot had one of the kids getting into a social gaffe or an ethical scrape before Jim stepped in to adjudicate. OK, but where did that leave Margaret...
...Margaret was the image of suburban chic in her short-sleeved blouses, her slim waist cinched by a kitchen apron, her pretty face set in a near-permanent smile. As each episode?s plot played out, she would be baking cookies or measuring the living-room couch for new slip covers, assuring that the mother ship was shipshape. In a show that ventured infrequently into Jim?s office or the kids? school, where the home was the essential set, Margaret - the only Anderson without a nickname - was also the only one whose daily business didn?t take her away from...
...with snappy humor in his snide asides. In his turn as an irreverent Catholic priest, Father Donnally, Daniel J. Wilner ’07 presents similar moments of incisive comedy.Jennifer H. Rugani ‘07 performs excellently in the role of Bette’s mother, Margaret. Rugani brings a cold presence to her character that nicely complements Margaret’s frigid personality.”Stern is at the helm of “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” as part of the HRDC’s yearly Visiting Director’s Project...