Word: meeker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...songs, including Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, On San Francisco Bay and Wang Wang Blues, on a story line "suggested" by the show-business careers of Husband & Wife Team Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley. According to the picture, popular Songstress Blossom (Betty Hutton) marries unknown Vaudevillian Benny (Ralph Meeker). But Benny resents being "Mr. Blossom Seeley," and insists on making good on his own before he does a duet with Blossom. With his wife's help, he finally makes the grade in the big time, and they exit triumphantly together singing the title tune...
Glory Alley (M-G-M). A couple of shots of Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as a fight trainer playing a trained trumpet almost make this little New Orleans melodrama worth the trouble. Also involved in the proceedings: a cocky prizefighter (Ralph Meeker) who quits the ring because of a mental block, but then proves himself a hero in Korea; a ballet dancer (Leslie Caron) who hoofs in a honky-tonk to support her blind father (Kurt Kasznar). Pretty Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a Belgian girl in America, is on her toes in a couple of dance numbers...
...This Inglorious Thing." The next day in a News editorial he complained bitterly about "this inglorious thing [which] has disfigured my view [of] the snowy heads of Longs and neighboring Mt. Meeker...
Shadow in the Sky (M-G-M), based on a New Yorker short story by Edward Newhouse, finds ex-Marine Ralph Meeker committed to a veterans' hospital because of his morbid tendency to hide under tables whenever it rains. When he is finally pronounced well enough to move in with his sister and brother-in-law (Nancy Davis and James Whitmore), they at first hesitate to bring him into close contact with their two children. But eventually they give in to the urgings of conscience embodied in Jean Hagen, a whimsical young woman who has met Meeker at hospital...
Having posed a fairly dramatic problem in human relationships, the movie promptly drops it for a lengthy debate over what Meeker should do with his $900 bankroll. Should he invest it in Whitmore's gas station? Or should he buy a boat and go junketing about the West Coast with Jean Hagen? The film never recovers from this odd digression, and Meeker's eventual cure is accomplished with Hollywood mirrors: in a tropical downpour, he saves his nephew's life, clears up his war neurosis in a brisk man-to-man chat with Whitmore...