Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this "feminine logic" but it is complex by its very nature, as you know, and an accumulative and personal reasoning process that is without meaning until one has first become acquainted with the particular female. During the course of the evening, you become very well acquainted indeed with the mother-in-law in "The Happiest Years...
Peggy Wood, who must have delighted theatergoers of yesteryear in "Naughty Marietta" and "Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most...
Harvard College and all graduate schools except the Business School use such allegedly discriminatory devices on their entrance applications as requests for an applicant's mother's maiden name, the birthplaces of his parents, and his photograph, the results of an investigation by the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education claim...
...mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece of humanity as Hollywood has ever treated at length...
Loyal at first only to his mother and his crippled brother (Arthur Kennedy), Midge gets his start in a fight-club preliminary. With a natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...