Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come Fill the Cup (Warner) begins as the story of a crack newspaperman (James Cagney) who cracks up as an alcoholic. Out of a job, too wedded to the bottle to go on seeing the girl (Phyllis Thaxter) who wants to marry...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...
...longtime newsman (26 years, nine papers), 46-year-old Texan Mewhinney does not regard himself as a columnist but as a "pick & shovel newspaperman," and still spends part of his week as a rewrite man. But his vast curiosity and freewheeling pedantry make him an ideal man for Meeting All Comers. In his spare time, he reads Latin, has taught himself to play the piano and has become a self-confessed authority on arrowhead making, jazz, Government regulations, paleontology, ornithology and coon-hunting...
Tuesday night, said Hollywood's wagging tongues, she went straight from the hospital to a restaurant, where she met none other than Tom Neal. Next night a Hollywood newspaperman kept vigil outside Barbara's house. He was amply rewarded. At 12:30 a.m. she drove up in a convertible with Neal. Soon the sound of cooing and the smell of frying bacon floated out from Barbara's kitchen. At 2 a.m. Barbara and Neal reappeared and whirled off in a yellow convertible that looked something like Franchot Tone...
...writes his book twice. For Sidney Skelton, the novel's narrator, is a highly successful newsbroadcaster who also has the taste of ashes in his mouth, and so rates a pretty full Marquand treatment himself. Sid hates his broadcasting job with its phony buildup. A working newspaperman, he has made good too fast on nothing but a pleasant voice. He can't get used to his big new house in Connecticut or to his wife's yearning to make the social grade...