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Word: plainsman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of modern Kit Carson, the strong silent Gary Cooper plainsman type. He'll always be broke-else why would he take all these queer jobs? He'll have lots of gals-one at every port. Naturally one of the problems will be to keep him single. I want to make him one of those guys that's sloppy as hell in his flying clothes, then can get dressed up in the evening and look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...amassed more than 350 screen credits. He directed a quickie for a comic who called himself Charles Chaplin and who went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with the script finished, the kidney trouble returned, forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gag Man | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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