Word: niven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would you risk certain death at the hands of the Nazi's to rescue a pregnant cow? Would you toss away fame and fortune to set up a national park in the jungles of East Africa? Well, maybe you wouldn't, but knobby-kneed David Niven and unknown John Steel take care of those two little things in this week's double bill at the Exeter...
...confused with a statue in the Louvre, this Venus is a cow. The hero, David Niven, sheds his kilts to bring the captive back to England (because she is a rare breed and important to the war effort). On the way over, by submarine naturally, he picks up pert Glynis Johns, who is one of the Island's rulers masquerading as an army cook, as well as the oddest expeditionary force in movie history. On the way back Venus has a calf and David and Glynis discover true love. But it's in between the going over and the coming...
...Santa Monica, Cinemactress Teresa (Something to Live For) Wright, 32, decided she had had enough "grievous mental suffering," filed divorce papers against Novelist-Scriptwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, 49, and asked for custody of their two children...
When the Germans invade the island in 1940, Major David Niven is assigned to lead a commando raid on Armorel to rescue Venus. Meanwhile the enemy, headed by Commandant George Coulouris, is preparing to ship Venus to Germany. There ensues a tour de force of arms, with a British submarine braving minefields and Luftwaffe to reach Armorel, an artist hastingly camouflaging another cow to look like Venus in order to confound the Germans, and a battle in which a British destroyer sinks a German E-boat with depth charges...
...Amos Niven Wilder, professor of the New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary, brother of Thornton...