Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adhemar de Barros, multimillionaire ex-governor of Sao Paulo. Shortly before the election, the two made a deal. Adhemar agreed to withdraw from the race and back Vargas. Vargas agreed to 1) accept a member of Adhemar's party, the social Progressive Party, as his vice-presidential running mate, and 2) support Adhemar in the 1955 presidential election. For the Vice President slot, Vargas foxily insisted on Café Filho, a nominal P.S.P. member. He reasoned that his old enemy would be less troublesome to him as a boxed-in Vice President than as a freewheeling Deputy...
Republicans re-elected six Senators. Among the six: New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, the Senate's president pro tempore, South Dakota's Karl Mundt and Idaho's Henry Dworshak, who swamped Democrat Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's banjo-playing running mate on 1948's Progressive ticket...
...fact, everything is just as it ought to be in such a picture. Oscar Brodney's scenes are fast and well-organized, Rudolph (Dodsworth) Mate's direction is firm and businesslike. Best bit is are working of a famed Charles Laughton scene in Henry VIII, a demonstration of medieval good manners ("the little things that distinguish the gentleman''; in which Actor Torin Thatcher daintily raises a whole haunch of mutton to his lips, graciously gnaws at it for awhile, then flings it airily over his shoulder-the left shoulder, that is-to the floor...
...subverting the more cherished tenets of the NAM, the film runs very smoothly. Besides many visual gags, including the boat itself, a leaky tub that floats in a humorous way, there is a cast of usual types for this sort of picture. Of course, a cunning captain, insolent mate, brash little boy and blustering American are fairly stock characters, but these particular actors are good, if not sparkling. The same can be said of the picture...
...three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde) and his too-enthusiastic wife (June Allyson...