Word: petunia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nice Girl? (Universal) abruptly halts the string of eight pleasant, sprightly tuneful Deanna Durbin films which have been the financial anchor of Universal Pictures Co. for the last four years. In it, grinning little Producer Joe Pasternak, who has nurtured Deanna like a prize petunia, has gone wildly askew with a somnolent essay on bourgeois life in a small New England town...
...course, with Ethel Waters in there to roll the orbs, flash ivory and vibrate the larnyx, it is hard to see how any production could fail to ring the chimes. When she, as the religious and patient Petunia, sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin in the Sky," life is a different thing. But even she is unable to steal the whole show. Rex Ingrain, whose face and voice will be most recently remembered as that of the Genii in "The Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could...
...boat had done service as a flower tub on the lawn in front of a Lake Oscawana hotel. A Scandinavian carpenter bought her for $5, emptied out a petunia bed, replanked her and launched her in nearby Annsville Creek. He sold her for a neat profit. Mrs. Douglas, who is short, roly-polyish and handy with tools, was sure she could do the same thing. She bought the boat, christened it Dottie...