Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Year one in the Harlow regime was 1935, and on November 9 of that year the first Harlow-trained contingent of football players ever to perform west of Jersey City trotted onto the field at Palmer Stadium in Princeton...
Body and Soul. John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in an exciting prizefight picture (TIME...
Body and Soul (Enterprise; United Artists) is a catchy but not very relevant title for a picture about prize fighting. The body is symbolized by materialistic Hazel Brooks and the soul by idealistic Lilli Palmer...
...amateur fighter class and travels fast. The faster he travels, the dirtier the racket gets. He is disgusted, but in his vanity and his desire for money he rationalizes about the general ugliness of the ringside business, and thus alienates his mother (Anne Revere) and his sweetheart (Lilli Palmer). He agrees to throw his last fight before retiring, but recovers his integrity in time, whales hell out of his opponent and wins back Miss Palmer...
Several of the performances are first-rate. Canada Lee plays with dignity and fervor one of the few thoroughly unpatronizing screen roles ever given a Negro. Lilli Palmer is a sensitive and lovely actress. John Garfield, having dropped some of his Dead End mannerisms, gives a good performance that is as hard and simple as a rock...