Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the opera, Director Halasz got even more than he expected. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "There is surely no cause for despair about the future of opera in the U.S. with such gifted fresh talent entering the field." Added the New York Times: "Miss Spence has a voice of both sweetness and power.... Voices of [Suzy Morris'] caliber are said to be almost nonexistent in this country, but here was a singer who produced tones of opulence, power, wide range. . . . Assuming she has some way to get experience, she could be a prima donna worthy...
...desire for money he rationalizes about the general ugliness of the ringside business, and thus alienates his mother (Anne Revere) and his sweetheart (Lilli Palmer). He agrees to throw his last fight before retiring, but recovers his integrity in time, whales hell out of his opponent and wins back Miss Palmer...
Once Jiminy has quit selling, the invisible Miss Shore tells and sings quite a pleasant little yarn about one Bongo (original story by Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis). Bongo is a small circus bear who answers the call of the wild on his unicycle, finds that he is a bit soft and urban for life in the raw, falls for a sexy little taupe she-bear, and engages a gigantic rival in slapstick battle...
...After Miss Leigh has married the aging, art-loving Lord Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples, as a step on the social stairease to fame, the naval captain arrives in town to win her love shortly before he leaves to win Battle of the Nile. On his return, they begin to realize that their respective mates would be something less than overjoyed with divorces, but, after struggling with the matter for a few years, they take a house in England until he is called forth to Trafalgar and his death. While a few of the love-seenes suffer somewhat from Miss...
...Hart, a rat of the Paris sewers, tells Miss Garson that her husband (Mr. Mitchum) died before his eyes, as a prisoner of war in Germany. Since the audience knows that Mr. Hart knows that Mr. Mitchum is alive, it is clear that he desires Miss Garson more than he ought. Believing his story, and tired of "waiting" (a word used in this film as a ten-ton synonym for celibacy), Miss Garson somewhat disconsolately, but uncensorably, starts desiring Hart...