Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Produced by M-G-M Production Chief Dore Schary,* the film begins by picturing the petty domestic frictions and foibles of Joe Smith (James Whitmore), a California aircraft worker, his pregnant wife (Nancy Davis) and their ten-year-old son (Gary Gray). Joe is sympathetic but short-tempered; he chafes at routine, hates his foreman (Art Smith), grimaces at his wife's box lunches, fumes at his stalling jalopy. One evening, in the Smith living room, the Voice breaks into a radio program to say: "This is God. I will be with you for the next few days...
Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...
Bettger plays the father of unwed Barbara Stanwyck's unborn child. He brushes her off with a $5 bill and a one-way ticket home. She escapes death in a train wreck, assumes the identity of a dead fellow traveler, a pregnant mother on the way to live with in-laws who have never seen her. The trusting in-laws (Jane Cowl and Henry O'Neill) take Barbara and her baby to their bosom. Their son (John Lund)-the brother of Barbara's supposed husband, who died in the wreck-suspects her deception but falls too hard...
Bloody Pathway. Kasper Jansen, a kindlier, more contemplative man than his fiery younger brother Koos, laughed a "bitterly defiant laugh" as he left the valley farm he loved. His pregnant wife Anna was more apprehensive. Anna detested violence. Like some of the other Boers with whom the Jansens joined forces in the drive into the north country, she wanted her children to grow up in a peaceful world stripped of racial hatred. But when the Boers reached the Matabele kingdom the natives resisted, and the Boers carved a bloody pathway with their rifles. Anna, giving birth just before the battle...
Every day, crowds of devout waded into the water, shouting: "O Goddess Ganges, holiest of rivers, lead me to salvation!" Children screamed as they were dragged into the icy water. Barren couples bathed hand-in-hand, hoping the holy water would make them fertile. Pregnant women came seeking the blessing of the Ganges for their unborn babies; 28 of the babies were born during the festival...