Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lela Rogers, busy mother of Ginger, discussed her suspicions of Communist hanky-panky in the movies. As an example she cited None But the Lonely Heart, a film full of "despair and hopelessness," with background music by Communist Hanns Eisler which was "moody and somber throughout . . . in the Russian manner." (Cracked a bystander: "It's a good thing Poe didn't write for the movies.") There was also a scene where a son refused to work in his mother's second-hand store and "squeeze pennies out of little people poorer than...
...Tuesday, for the first time in her life alone in her own glass coach, she rode to Westminster to open Parliament with her father and mother. His Majesty's Government and Loyal Opposition joined forces to wish her luck and congratulate her on her "unerring graciousness." Communist William Gallacher refused to join the motion. "I cannot forget," he said, "that on the day this engagement was announced, thousands of Greek citizens were thrown into the prison camps of the reactionary Royalist Greek Government," but he was soon shouted down with cries of "sit down...
Recently an old woman turned up at Li's studio claiming to be her real mother. Li's other mother, she said, had only adopted her. "In my circle," said Little Meow, "there are many people who know all about me. You can ask them how big my mother's stomach...
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...with convenient flashbacks of the kind the cinema loves, and the story moves effortlessly from London to Vienna to California, affording many an opportunity for many a stock shot. Its sentiments are eminently correct for the movies, with one exception. When the hero first meets the heroine and her mother, he goes briefly for the mother-but that angle could easily be cut out of the script. Love finally conquers all as The Bomb falls on Hiroshima. Running time: 90 minutes...