Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Elzire Legros Dionne, 37, mother of Canada's famed quintuplets, and Oliva Dionne, 43: their 14th child, a son (eight girls, five boys living); in North Bay, Ontario...
...distraught heroine (Catherine McLeod) is a musically talented Trilby, dominated by her teacher, great Pianist Philip Dorn. With his mother (Mme. Ouspenskaya) as chaperone, they tour the world, lounging around between smashingly successful concerts in what must be the world's flossiest and most costly hotel accommodations. Pianist Philip Dorn is jealous of his talented pupil as a musician, but he never really sees her as a woman until after she has morosely gone off to marry her childhood sweetheart (William Carter...
...marriage is not a happy one. Miss McLeod shuts up her piano and mopes around the house for some 20 years while her daughter grows up and gets ready to play the Piano Concerto No. 2 at Carnegie Hall, just as mother once...
...film's mystery is not very mysterious. Neither is the romance between mother and a police lieutenant of the homicide squad (Randolph Scott). But the irrepressible kids (Peggy Ann Garner, 14, Connie Marshall, 8, and Dean Stockwell, 10) are often very funny in their efforts to assist or thwart Police Sergeant Jimmy Gleason...
...diving girls are again bringing up oysters. His 1,500 factory workers are deftly seeding them with a mother-of-pearl bead. Soon he expects to have 1,500,000 oysters working for him. By mass production he hopes within a few years to have prices down to suit the pockets of the masses. His eyes are on his No.1 market, the U.S. Says he: I like Americans best. They are straight-forward-like children...