Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play provides some metaphysical speeches and a time-machine. Stephen Minch (Burgess Meredith), inventor who has made a fortune for his employer, has reached his peak with the invention of a "star-wagon" which will return its driver to any desired point in the past. Nagged by his wife Martha (Lillian Gish) for his resigned poverty and fired by his employer, the inventor throws the switch of the star-wagon, and is instantly transported to the year 1902, when he met and married Martha. Resolved to rectify his mistakes, he says no to his heart, makes a practical match with...
...show from being a rather inconsequential hodge-podge. In their efforts to please everyone, the producers have put a great many ingredients in their cinematic soup and include in their cast along with Ida Lupino, Gail Patrick, and Richard Arlen, Andre Kostelanetz, Connie Boswell, the Yacht Club Boys, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong, McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, and two "rhythm swimmers" who pretty nearly steal the show with their performance in a sequence of "Whispers in the Dark...
Everything was according to Hoyle about the letters. Even Miss Martha Chapin, Perennial list-maker, had something to do with them. In fact, replies were to be sent...
...little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered a high-minded athlete who was painfully settling down at story...
Double or Nothing (Paramount). Tuneful musical, starring Bing Crosby and Martha Raye, whose plot turns on the adventures of four legatees of an eccentric millionaire...