Word: moms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bainter, who is chiefly noted for her faithful movie performances as Mickey Rooney's mom, is a handsome doting mother who keeps house for a far more annoying son in the Plymouth's new play...
...convinces the mother (through some dubious elementary psychology) that her son is an "incurable psychopath;" that she should (1) go away, (2) send the son to an institution, (3) kill the boy. Mother relays all this to her son, who jilts the girl, plays up to his beloved mom, and leaves everything up to Bainter, who has no chance to get anything done before the curtain falls...
Shirley Anne took the head of the statue out of the ashcan. Only its nose had been dented. She pressed her lips affectionately against it. Then she ran shrilling into the house: "Mom, the statue cried. I kissed it and it cried." Viola Martin knew her daughter to be a perfectly normal girl, neither withdrawn nor possessed, but sufficiently imaginative to be pecking out on a typewriter a "book" she called "The Haunted House." Mrs. Martin decided to say nothing. "Nobody would have believed...
Producer Babb, sparkplug of this unusual moviemaking team, pushes Mom and Dad as if it were snake oil. The film is shown only to unmixed audiences after a town has been saturated with a ballyhoo campaign that leaves no one but the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help...
...Lawton Story will get the same painstaking local promotion as Mom and Dad, and will wear the same trimmings. There will be an intermission for a "world famous lecturer," hawking another $1 pamphlet-"The Prince of Peace." Say the picture's pitchmen: "The film will move the most hardened sinner, comfort the most troubled." Says untroubled Live Wire Kroger Babb: "It's no sin to make a profit...