Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkably full of warmth, of life, and of real cinematic sensitiveness. Credit for its awkward grace is due in part to a round dozen of its little-known players, in part to its scripters and director and cameraman, but most of all to 40-year-old Producer Val Lewton, nephew of Alia Nazimova...
Born. To Cyrus Lee Sulzberger, 31, New York Times Middle East correspond ent, nephew of the Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; and his Greek wife, Marina Tatiana Lada Sulzberger, 25: their first child, a daughter; in Cairo, Egypt. Name : Marina Beatrice...
...Brooklyn, Abby and Martha Brewster (played with twinkling good humor by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, creators of the stage roles) are looked upon as just two fluttery old maids lovingly taking care of a crack-brained nephew (John Alexander) who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. Little do the good-natured local cops dream that there are twelve bodies buried in the cellar. Presently a truculent, criminally insane nephew (Raymond Massey) appears. He also has twelve murders to his credit and a crooked sawbones (Peter Lorre) to help him. A whimsical competition ensues to see who will be first...
...Nephew Sebastian, meanwhile, was tossing miserably on his bed one night when the latch clicked and he was enveloped in an aroma of "spring freshness and musky animality." It was Mrs. Thwale. " 'Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love,'" she quoted later, huskily. Then she married Paul De Vries, the breakfast-food heir...
...various beds in the suite tumbled the Ambassador to Ecuador, the Minister of Labor, the President's attorney, his aide-de-camp, a nephew, and the President's youngest son, 25-year-old Princeton man Fernando Lopez Michelsen. They all got dressed, arranged themselves comfortably about the sitting room and tried to appear at ease. The President and his party chatted pleasantly on harmless topics, watching the rifles...