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Word: murrays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important man in Hollywood. He knew exactly what Americans wanted and he gave it to them, by ballyhooing unknown kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could alter his proclaimed moral standards to fit the freewheeling '20s and '30s, turned loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Motion Picture | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...weight of a pile of enormous, fleece-lined coats. To arriving friends the man said: "Here, you better take this. It might be cold up there." It was. The gathering party's destination, Fort St. John, B.C., lay smothered under snowdrifts 8 ft. high. But to Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, temporary coat-dispenser and full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border," McMahon's men within hours cleared off Fort St. John's airport, spread gravel on the walks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Tycoon's Wing-Ding | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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