Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night People. Capitalist meets commissar in Berlin, and Nunnally Johnson bangs their heads together; with Gregory Peck (TIME, March...
...report the couple to the police because he had vouched for them. The ten days stretched into months, the visas expired, but the Grimeses stayed on and fought. "We had brought American film magazines along with us to show the children," said Grimes. "Monica became a fan of Gregory Peck and Tony Curtis. We told her she could see their films in America and that just about won the battle...
...with high connections in Washington, makes a stratoline for Berlin to "get some action" out of the military-government bureaucrats stationed there. For a little while-as the big businessman blabbers influentially in the press club and blubbers helplessly under the withering word-fire of an intelligence officer (Gregory Peck) who dares to use his intelligence-the picture is strongly reminiscent of a leftish political cartoon from the '30s in which a hog in striped pants is served up with an apple in his mouth...
...pictures in a variety of styles (The Grapes of Wrath, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, How to Marry a Millionaire). Then, says Johnson, 56, "I got the impulse to direct. I said to [20th Century-Fox Boss Darryl] Zanuck: 'What about directing Night Peopled Zanuck said, 'What will Peck say?' " Johnson checked with Actor Peck. "He looked kind of startled and said, 'Why not?' So I became a director...
Family: Married, two daughters. They live in a modest apartment near the Vatican. After leaving the government last summer, Scelba went back to his law practice, could be found typing his own briefs, hunt-and-peck style...