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...that a photograph of Mabel Normand as "Peg O' My Heart" instead of Laurette Taylor [May 9] ? ... I am of the fallible opinion that a long time ago (30 years maybe) I saw Mabel Normand in the movie version of Peg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Neither Cinemactress Normand nor Daniels (see cuts) played in the movie version of Peg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...actress was that she used herself up on plays written by her husbands. When she married the popular but lightweight British Playwright J. Hartley Manners, it was both a real love match and a tacit contract to become his star for life. Together they became rich and famous (Peg 0' My Heart, One Night in Rome), but it was plain that a great talent was being spent on thin theater. Laurette did not seem much to care. Peg 0' My Heart had made her a favorite of New York and London; the movie made her a household heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deeper than Greasepaint | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...fourth inning, with the Dodgers coasting along on a 2-0 lead, Left Fielder Sandy Amoros raced home from second on a blooping single. Monte Irvin's peg beat him to the plate. Umpire Pinelli spread his arms, palms down. Safe? Leo Durocher, the Giants' manager, boiled from the bench. Unaccountably astonished because Durocher and 27,297 fans had misunderstood him, Pinelli jerked his thumb over his shoulder and allowed that Amoros was out. Durocher simmered down. Dodger Manager Alston kicked up a brief fuss just for the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Record Makers | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...trying, with both hands tied behind his back, to get a particularly persistent fly off his face. "Milk!" Newton splutters, staggering back, clutching wildly at his throat and shuddering like the plague. "I be pizened!" The way he walks, anybody would think he had at least twelve peg legs instead of one, and the way he talks, "Jim Oarkins" and "Trays-sher Eye-lund" sound like scrumptiously pleasurable belches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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