Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prowler (Horizon; United Artists) approaches its climax with a situation that moviegoers hardly expect from Hollywood: a bridegroom learns on his wedding night that his wife is pregnant. French and Italian moviemakers, who use the facts of life as story staples, might work such a situation for drama or comedy. Having ventured to deal with it at all, Hollywood typically uses it as a clever gimmick in a superior melodrama...
...wife of an unemployed carpenter and mother of five children, she became pregnant again last July. For five months, all went well. Then the uterus slipped through the abdominal rupture. Izene Hawley did not go to a doctor and didn't intend to. She cleaned the house, four miles outside Canon City, washed and ironed clothes for two small boys with an affinity for dirt (the older children were away from home), cooked for her husband and fed the chickens...
...about a poison-pen campaign that sets a small French village into turmoil. It contains glimpses of some of the nastiest people ever assembled on one movie lot, and that includes the hero, Dr. German, who is played by Pierre Fresnay. The movie's favorite acting device is the pregnant pause, which is woefully overworked. Moviegoers who have seen "The Thirteenth Letter" will find that it is the same movie, scene for scene. They will also find that the American version is just as convincingly acted and considerably easier on the eyes...
...Sandweiss of Harper Hospital, Detroit, who had noted that pregnancy, for some unknown reason, gives almost certain relief to women with peptic ulcers (TIME, Aug. 15, 1949). Since 80% of all ulcer sufferers are men, who cannot benefit from pregnancy, Dr. Sandweiss prepared an extract of the urine of pregnant mares. He named it "anthelone" (Greek for anti-ulcer), and made a hopeful but guarded report...
When Jean Armour became pregnant...