Word: pangborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clyde Pangborn, famed 'round-the-world flyer of 1931, now an RAFerryman, was sued in Montreal by his wife for $400 a month separate maintenance. Barbara Bennett Downey Randall, sister of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett, lost her fight for custody of her five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife...
About this time Pangborn was arrested, detained and fined for flying over Japan on a round-the-world flight...
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Universal) is not a movie; it is 70 minutes of photographed vaudeville by polypnosed W. C. Fields, assisted by Gloria Jean, Franklin Pangborn and other stage properties. As such, it is strong drink for cinemaddicts who believe that the Great Man can do no wrong, small beer for those who think that even a Fields picture should have a modicum of direction...
...pistol, Fields pounces like a terrier on a rat, has to be pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard and Jessie Ralph, bearing such names as J. Pinkerton Snoopington, Joe Guelpe and Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch...
...Reno, waiting for her divorce decree, French Actress Swana Beaucaire went to a movie that changed her mind, wired Husband Clyde Pangborn, shy, soft-spoken round-the-world flier: "COME AND GET ME. I DON'T WANT A DIVORCE." He went...