Word: neils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Centers: Bill Barnes, Sheldon Dietz, Tom Grover, Bill Harrison, John O'Neil, Bill LaCroix, Charles Putnam...
Died. Wilbur Neil Burkhardt, 50, crusading editor of the Scripps-Howard San Francisco News; of injuries received when he jumped from the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge; in San Francisco...
...could possibly be crowded into it. It had impressive length (two hours, 20 minutes). It had shrewd, hard bitten Bette Davis to play the love-crossed governess; doe-eyed, dove-voiced Charles Boyer to play her great friend, the Duke de Praslin; hectic, handsome, breast-clutching Barbara O'Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic, lovable little son. It had such veteran actors as Walter Hampden, Helen Westley, Fritz Leiber...
...picture itself is somewhat less sensational than its timing. Its plot is almost as involved as a peace treaty. Cinemactress Janis is Nurse O'Neil, who stalks around rather weirdly as the hardboiled, softhearted head of a female nursing unit at the front. She has had a past and it bobs up early in the picture in the highly attractive form of her equally hard-boiled daughter, Nurse Pamela (Wendy Barrie). Pamela has just inadvertently killed a popular drunken officer by pushing him through a balustrade. She turns nurse to make amends. Pamela does not know that Nurse...
...Daphne," by the Quintet of France, is rather meaningless... Mary Martin's album of Colo Porter tunes is okeh. We prefer Lee Wiley's records (General Records)... "Baby Won't You Come Home" is better rendered by the O'Neil Spencer Quartet than by Ella Fitzgerald; both Deccan... Fats Waller is still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds...