Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seated massively at his desk that day in 1905, John Pierpont Morgan seemed lost in thought. He hardly even bothered to look up when his nephew Junius appeared before him with a slim, grey-eyed girl in tow. "Uncle," said Junius, "this is Miss...
Thus, scarcely out of her teens, "quaking with fear and shaking like an aspen," Belle da Costa Greene began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library. She was not to quake or shake for long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection...
...idol who takes a tumble in the story is Baines (Ralph Richardson), an embassy butler in London. Baines is detested by his tight-lipped wife, idolized by the ambassador's young son Felipe (Bobby Henrey), and loved by an embassy typist (Michele Morgan) whom he in turn loves. Out of this emotional tangle, Author Greene has built a clever, suspenseful tale. Borrowing Henry James's trick of using the eyes of children as peepholes into adult passions, Greene centered the story on little Felipe...
Idol has many achievements to its credit: handsome, visually exciting sets, carefully pitched performances by Richardson and Michele Morgan, and assorted humorous bits of British character acting. But its outstanding achievement is Director Reed's handling of Bobby Henrey. To establish the child's-eye view of the story, he has turned his cameras loose in Felipe's own waist-high world, bounded by embassy balustrades and the butler's well-creased pants. To sharpen the effect, the sound track, like a child's half-focused attention, sometimes catches only half the adult talk...
...Morgan won this certificate, one of five given out since the end of the war, for his work as chairman of the legal committee that drafted a uniform code of military justice...