Word: mumms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eddie's arrival in Hollywood provided an answer to Olympia Studios' most stunning problem: what to do with the exact duplicate of Paris' Gare St.-Lazare which somebody had constructed on the lot. And it ended the creative impasse between Scripters Ludlow Mumni and Maurice Cassard. Mumm was a solemn, devout Manhattan liberal who was driven to picket lines by a chauffeur. Cassard was a rumpled, realistic Frenchman, who admitted to an impulse to vomit into the hats of "Stork Club Communists." They were working together on the script of Moses Fable's preposterous musical, Will...
Madame Garnett's gangling young son, who had been playing in some uncut shrubbery during the show, joined his parents inside after it was over. Her husband, an Italian businessman, poured Mumm's champagne in honor of the occasion. The guests filed out happy and admiring. Gushed a fluttery, middle-aged American guest: "It is very difficult to get materials, you know. To do a show under these conditions deserves-" Stifled by emotion, she applauded lightly with gloved hands...