Word: motherless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Garfield is the skillful jockey whose well-earned reputation for riding a crooked mile keeps him off U.S. racetracks. To his young motherless son (Orley Lindgren), who tags along from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning a race he was supposed to throw, Garfield flees to Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life...
...arctic snows, as in the Alabama bottoms, the slave's sentiment is: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child...
Laid in a Southern town, The Member portrays the intimate relationship of three essentially lonely people: a motherless twelve-year-old girl, a middle-aged Negro servant and a small boy. Gawky, bewildered, self-dramatizing Frankie Addams, full of emotions a size too large for childhood, a size too small for adolescence, yearns to be somebody, to count with people, to belong. Life-tempered, mellow Berenice Sadie Brown, the Addams' cook, who has loved one man and married four, is as resigned as Frankie is agitated; little John Henry, though forever asking questions, has asked none yet of life...