Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis Chisolm (Gregory Peck), the hero of this moral saga, is that rare sort of great man, humble, slow-minded, naive and brave, who never realizes his own greatness. At the beginning, in a Scottish village, he has no desire to take holy orders. He is brought to it by his sweetheart's death and by a benign old Monsignor (Edmund Gwenn) who talks, not too urgently, about the will of God. It is this same mentor who sends the young priest, when he has come to regard himself as a hopeless failure, a thousand miles deep into 19th...
...Keys-notably the sharply etched ecclesiastical portraits of Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Edmund Gwenn, and the disciplined, powerful performance of Austrian Rosa Stradner, a screen newcomer, as the nun. But the picture's biggest, toughest role is remarkably handled by 28-year-old Gregory Peck. He combines a bearing and demeanor that a matinee idol might envy (rather suggesting a sandpapered Lincoln) with a dominant naturalness. It is not surprising that he has no theatrical ancestry-his father is a San Diego druggist...
Bored with high school, truck driving and college, Peck discovered in University of California's Little Theater what he really liked to do. Journeying swiftly to Manhattan, he worked as a World's Fair barker to earn money for dramatic school, later got a job guiding tourists through Rockefeller Center, snared a couple of dramatic scholarships. Then Guthrie McClintic spotted him, gave him a few small parts and finally a big one (in Emlyn Williams' Morning Star) that led to Hollywood...
...first picture was Days of Glory. Even before it had been released, and had given the moguls a chance to feel the public pulse, Peck had achieved something virtually unheard of in Hollywood: he was signed to star in something like a dozen major productions. (Because of a spinal injury incurred as a college oarsman, he is unlikely to be drafted.) At present he is probably the most drawn-&-quartered property in cinema. His contracts call for one film a year for Fox, one for M.G.M., two each, over a four-year period, for Casey Robinson, Selznick...
Into this barnyard mess squawked New York City's egg-shaped Mayor La Guardia to peck at the Government for failing to give the consumer the benefit of its egg buying. Said he: "It is unscientific, uneconomical, unfair and most wasteful and sinful for the Government to buy eggs to support the market . . . and expect to sell them to the consumers at the same price, These eggs ought to be sold for about 75% of ceiling price to the consumer. The Government could then recoup 75% of its investment and the consumer would get the benefit of low-priced...