Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balloting for the leadership came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished but plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
Lloyd C. Douglas' continuous bestseller, The Robe (about early Christians in ancient Rome), was again announced for production; Maxwell Anderson would write the script; Gregory Peck would surely play the lead. In London, Producer Anthony Havelock-Allan (Great Expectations') thought of filming the life of St. Paul. Both Greta Garbo and Lana Turner were reportedly under serious consideration for Madame Bovary...
...pictures they might make in England. For the first time, Korda had something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and a new unpublished novel, The Third...
...Among them, Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy McGuire, Valli, Shirley Temple, Louis Jourdan, Robert Mitchum, Robert Young...