Word: nugents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie Nugent) makes off with Lawyer Lee's fiancee, and the riot...
Freely mentioned as the inspiration for the crackpot playboy is four-times married, asbestos-protected Tommy Manville. After witnessing the opening performance of See My Lawyer, Manville went on to a nightclub. There, reported spry Columnist Leonard Lyons, Manville encountered Actor Nugent, and putting his arms around Nugent's shoulders, murmured: "Thank you so much for not having made me out a ridiculous character...
...Frank Nugent of the New York Times, however, the picture has been called "The most complete, impartial, and intelligent film history of the Russian revolution thus far shown...
...Delaney, who user to panic them at the Majestic, Eddie Nugent is a stand-out in a pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room...
...Graham) absentmindedness verges on the sublime, Daughter Frankie (Rosalyn Boulter) suffers from vestal restlessness, piano-playing Brother Dudley (Arthur Macrae) spouts Noel Coward and badgers stuffy Brother Claude (Richard Warner), who builds houses and does setting-up exercises. Clouds gather over the breakfast table when Gladys, the maid (Moya Nugent), is found crying near the sausages and Frankie reports she saw Claude coming out of the girl's room. Two acts and a fortnight later, just in time for the arrival of much-discussed and dreaded guests, the domestic weather settles fair...