Word: mccrea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virginia Travis (Miriam Hopkins), an aspiring architectural student, applies to B. J. Nolan (Charles Winninger) for a job with his projected model suburb. She finds Nolan is bankrupt, his heartless son Kenneth (Joel McCrea). possessor of a million dollars, having refused to help him. Kenneth, a cautious man when sober, will buy anything when drunk, and the climax of Woman Chases Man is the way in which Miss Travis gets Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from...
Newt Holley (Walter Brennan) planned to serenade his son Ernie (Joel McCrea) and the latter's bride Pearl (Barbara Stanwyck) with St. Louis Blues on their wedding night. He felt the tune might be a kind of charm to bring him a grandbaby. Newt never got to play the tune that night because Ernie ran away after he had knocked a man into the river for trying to kiss the bride.' When Ernie finally came home again he quarreled so with Pearl that she went to New Orleans with an itinerant photographer (Walter Catlett). Following...
...richest man in the State, he discovers in the old Swede's daughter the image of his old flame. Barney showers benefits on the family. His efforts to renew his youth by making the young girl his mistress are frustrated by her romance with his son (Joel McCrea...
Michigan and other states investigating the Legion found its odor distinctly unpleasant. Outraged Pontiac. Mich, citizens, hearing that many of their city officials were connected with Legion activities, began an inquiry of their own. The appearance of Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea's name on a Legion membership blank caused a fine furor in Detroit. To Washington went frantic wires from the Midwest begging the G-Men to step in. Introduced in the U. S. House and Senate was a joint resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
Second big yell went up when the Detroit Guild wired in that Wayne County's Prosecutor Duncan C. ("Dune") McCrea, long at outs with the Hearstian Detroit Times, was thinking of instituting a $100,000 libel suit against the paper for stating that he was a member of the terroristic Black Legion organization, and that if he did he would donate any proceeds from the suit to the Newspaper Guild to help fight for "underpaid Hearst employes...