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...patients are as dated as sugar daddies. For cigar-faced Director Ernst Lubitsch, they can form the nucleus of a whole amusing movie about well-cushioned life with the upper crust. He proves it by sending Merle Oberon, a healthy Park Avenue socialite, to consult a Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray) at the beginning of the picture. When she tells him there is nothing wrong with her, he says: "I'm sure you will feel differently when you leave this office." She does. Her happy marriage to a solidly normal insurance salesman (Melvyn Douglas) is disrupted by another...
...Villain Still Pursued Her" is second on the bill but is its first, and sole, attraction. It is solid, old-fashioned stuff with explanatory asides and soliloquies and even a moral. Anita Louise makes a lovely flower of innocence, but the big black villain (Alan Mowbray) steals the show (his attempts to steal Anita are foiled in time...
Backer of Hollywood's revival of Tonight at 8:30 is the Theatre Guild of Southern California. Founded by onetime Hollywood Director Dudley Murphy and Cinemactor Alan Mowbray, the Guild was set up as a permanent theatrical company, proposed to present Hollywood talent in plays both old & new. A snarl in Guild plans occurred last week when Co-Founder Murphy split with Partner Mowbray, prepared to start a group of his own. Also disturbing to the Guild was a request from the Theatre Guild in Manhattan that the California outfit change its name to prevent confusion...
Despite its troubles the Guild grossed a fat $20,000 weekly with Tonight at 8:30, and Actor Mowbray, who intends to rename his organization The Players Theatre when the Coward series is over, was making long plans for the future. The Guild's present popularity is stimulated by the fact that all its profits are now donated to the British War Relief Association, whose Southern California division Alan Mowbray heads. Actors in Tonight at 8:30 contribute their services free...
...Ritter Span, invented two years ago by 20-year-old Andrew Mowbray Ritter, University of Michigan junior and Gamma Sigma's president, is a complicated back flip in which a performer leaps into the air, twists his body into a horizontal arc "which he holds momentarily," then lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less...