Word: ona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemactress Ona Munson, player of aging hospitable shady ladies ("Belle Watling," "Mother Gin Sling"), was chosen by the Chamber of Commerce as Hollywood's official hostess...
...Shanghai Gesture (Pressburger; United Artists) is a film perversion of Playwright John Colton's flaming melodrama of 16 years ago. Most of its original bawdy plot, language, atmosphere and characterization has been removed. Mother Goddam (Florence Reed in the stage version) is now Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), no longer proprietress of a Chinese bawdy house, but of a gambling casino. As such, she is not sinister but gaudy. So is the pretentious picture...
Engaged. Cinemactress Ona Munson, 33, the Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind: and ex-FHAdministrator Stewart McDonald, sixtyish, now Deputy Federal Loan Administrator; in Hollywood...
...natural, of course, that deadpanned John Reynolds (Mr. Wayne), a Yankee Attorney hired by the anti-lottery league to smash the racket, should fall in love with coquettish Julie (Ona Munson), Rebel daughter of goateed General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson), owner of the lottery. When sudden death overtakes the General and promotes his daughter to head of the lottery, Buster Reynolds is confronted with the painful problem of destroying his light-o-love's source of income without losing her affection...