Word: martha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman admiral (Jack Hawkins) whose life he has saved. As soon as possible, he goes back to Palestine, hears that his mother and sister...
...this three more major characters (Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Martha Hyer), three other office romances, a script loaded with schoolgirl sophistication and half-aphorisms ("Old is when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...
Nothing happened. He reeled in quickly, the plug streaking like a toy torpedo. For an hour he worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than to expect an easy strike from a striped bass-a silver-green fighter with a flippant challenge that turns men into lifelong, zealous pursuers...
...Small-town tattletales embarrass the heroine's mother into insisting that Rachel's Summer be spent at home. But the vacation is ruined when Rachel discovers that Momma isn't so sure of her innocence. From a story by Charles (Lost Weekend) Jackson. With Martha Scott and Patty McCormack...
...salary and bonus approach $300,000. He likes to spend it, lives in a palatial $250,000 stone-and-glass lakeside house, dresses in hand-needled $175 suits that have fancy cuffs on the sleeves. With Wife Esther, Son David, 22 (an engineering student at Michigan), and Daughter Martha, 18 (a freshman at Michigan State), he shares three boats, four Chevies (one for each member of the family) and five TV-sets (two in color), which Cole watches "only to see if I can sharpen up the Chevy commercials...