Word: norma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically, the plot concerns the efforts of Norma Brown (Miss Fonda) to choose between a conventional fiance who puts her to sleep and a Long Island aborigine who doesn't. In fact, Aaron Jablonski (James MacArthur) awakens Norma with a kiss in the approved Prince Charming fashion to start the ball rolling. The boring suitor's father finds Camilla Jablonski at the Long Island resort spot and re-kindles a 20-year-old love affair. After an incredible period of juggling figures, the old smoothies deduce that Aaron is indeed their joint issue. That Aaron finally wins the girl...
...strain of battling the built-in deficiencies of the role made her decide to quit. Eileen Heckart, as an often Auntie Mame-like Deedee Grogan, handles wise-cracks, insults, and pathos equally well, and looks appropriately garish in Miss Ballard's costumes. Madeleine Sherwood is hateful enough as Norma's mother, and Richard Derr, as the father of many, is grey flannel through and through...
...dross voices with banal notes to produce gold." Novelist Ishlon insists that Anna Lou Schreckengost is no one in particular. She could be an approximation of Cincinnati's Doris Kappelhoff, who-with 1946-3 Sentimental Journey-made famous her new name, Doris Day. But coincidence falls closer to Norma Jean Speran:a, a teenager from a small town in western Pennsylvania who came to the attention of Columbia A. & R. Man Mitch Miller ii 1953, when an ambitious disk jockey sent him a tape. Norma Jean and her sister were flown to New York for an audition...