Word: marian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the Ashburns retired when they wanted to think things over. Three generations of shrewd, kindly old Maine farmers had pondered there before Charlie Ashburn, but few of them faced such problems as beset homely, bald-headed Charlie. Charlie was in love with a vivacious college girl named Marian Parks. His older married brother Morris also loved her. Marian, although she was friendly with both, loved neither. Morris wife complicated things by making shameless love to high-minded, honest Charlie who became her lover. Charlie, whose ideal in life was expressed in Longfellow's lines, Make a house where...
...Marian Forrester, Soprano Talley is a melodious homebody who spurns the career which her theatrical family tradition demands, plans to marry a stodgy neighbor in the small Kentucky town where her father (Nigel Bruce) has settled down to teach music. This intention, constantly delayed by the financial troubles of the Forrester family, is finally thwarted when Aunt Louise and Uncle Tony move in with their out-of-work opera troupe. The troupe's star and manager (Michael Bartlett) decides to present an opera written by Tony for the amusement of Kentucky Derby crowds. Success depends upon getting Soprano Marian...
Ruth Chatterton, who has been making pictures since who knows when, is starred in "Lady of Secrets", a rather incredible but touching movie. She is really not Joan's (Marian Marsh) sister but her mother, and that gag has been pulled a little too often for a gag that wasn't too good in the first place. However, her romance with the unjustly treated war-victim Michael (Lloyd Nolan) and her patching-up of her sister-daughter's love affair in the face of cruel father Lionel Atwill are interesting. Otto Kruger plays a wealthy anthropologist and sportsman convincingly...
Brown-eyed, bobbed-haired Dr. Marian Staats Newcomer, 47, of Manhattan, remembers the qualms she suffered when a Syracuse University nose & throat specialist wanted to remove her tonsils. Although at the time she was a medical student of that University, she scooted home to her family doctor. "I knew," said she last week, "this beloved physician was not in a position to tell me more about my throat than the man who had already spoken so authoritatively on the subject. But he did know a great deal about my general health and background and I wished to add his opinion...
...BEWILDERED PATIENT-Marian Staats Newcomer-Hale, Cushman & Flint...