Word: milland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first-aid stations...
Screen Directors Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). The Big Clock, with Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan...
...McCarthy of the Red Sox ever finds any pleasant dreams sandwiched in between his present nightmares, they must have a plot that runs along the lines of "It Happens Every Spring." As a chemistry professor who turns to pitching when he discovers a solution that repels wood, Ray Milland wins 38 ball games in the regular season for St. Louis, then goes on to win four more in the World Series. Every time a bat gets near one of the magic pitches, the ball hops up and over, into the catcher's mitt. The whole picture is just as ridiculous...
Aside from the weird baseball chemistry, the movie's laughs come from the whimsical, confused Milland as he changes professions and from Paul Douglas, who plays Ray's catcher and room mate. Douglas, matching his stage performance in "Born Yesterday" and his other movie appearance in "A Letter to Three Wives," is the tobacco-chewing, hardheaded, soft-hearted, Ring Lardner ball player who wisecracks at the umpire during business hours and spends the rest of the day keeping his irascible pitcher in tow. One of the picture's funniest scenes comes when he uses some of the magic lotion...
...fantasy has somehow been kept in motion by Director Lloyd Bacon (Mother-Is a Freshman) and Writer Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street), who apparently have a gift for making a fairly funny movie out of a downright silly idea. Even so, without the sly comedy sense of Veteran Milland and the pug-faced antics of Paul Douglas, Every Spring could easily have struck out in the second reel...