Search Details

Word: pidgeons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Executive Suite (MGM) is loaded with enough big names to tear the marquee off the average movie house. William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas, Louis Calhern, Dean Jagger and Nina Foch-all appear in this adaptation of Cameron Hawley's bestselling novel about big businessmen locked in a grim struggle for power. And when all the stars together set up a fiercely competitive twinkle for attention, the moviegoer is apt to feel somewhat like a switchboard operator with ten calls blinking at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Sampler. In Columbus, Miss., James C. Pidgeon got a divorce after he testified that his bride drank excessively and threatened him with a knife during the one day they lived together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m. CBS). Walter Pidgeon in The People Against O'Hara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...schoolteacher from the little (pop. 5,000) mining town of Silver City, N.Mex. sat down and wrote a letter to Screen Actors Guild President Walter Pidgeon. A group of Mexican-American miners and their families, the teacher reported, were hard at work nearby on a semi-documentary movie. The film was being sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, which was ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. Director of the picture: Herbert Biberman, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten" (TIME, May 31, 1948). Director's assistants: Paul Jarrico and Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: I.U.M.M.S.W. with Love | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Beautiful feints more than it punches. The moral of the film, spelled out in the script, reveals more about Hollywood than the entire picture. Though Shields has wronged them, the director, star, and author are now successful because of him. They are obligated, film executive Walter Pidgeon insists, to forgive Shields. Pidgeon assures the author that his recent Pulitzer Prize more than compensates for the loss of his wife. Since his wife is Miss Grahame, this reasoning is doubly faulty...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Bad and the Beautiful | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next