Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old lawyer who held hands with her in public, talked with a lisp, was known around the courthouse as "Wicked Wascal Wabbit." Most explicit of all the witnesses were two Santa Barbara ex-convicts, who testified that mother Duncan offered them $6,000 to kill Frank's pregnant wife. They lured her into a rented automobile, beat her into unconsciousness with a pistol, strangled her, then dumped her body into a ditch. For all this, they complained, mother Duncan paid them only...
...Mother is to receive. When the fateful check arrives, Mother asks little Travis to count the zeros, and then plunks down $3,500 in part payment for a house in the suburbs-an all-white suburb, as it happens. After a thwarted Walter takes to drink, and lets his pregnant wife consult an abortionist, Mother Younger gives him the other $6,500 to prove his mettle. Poor Walter promptly gets fleeced as his partner skips town. After that, the Youngers must fight to keep their "pinch of dignity...
...With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life to the I.R.A. Shirley Booth puts a barbed disenchantment in her lines that neatly deflates humbug and windbag alike. But she carries her tragic life more like extra luggage than a cross...
...Integration: "I think we can have integration as far as politics and human rights go without getting in bed with Negroes. I don't think anybody ever got pregnant by drinking out of the same water fountain...
Good old-fashioned pratfall that it is, it was not turned out without heartaches and headaches for Writer-Director-Producer Billy Wilder. It was made last fall, when Actress Monroe, believing herself pregnant, was reportedly more sulkily temperamental than usual, with Playwright-Husband Arthur Miller hovering solicitously on the edge of the set during much of the shooting. What's more, Wilder took the fairly daring risk of turning two of Hollywood's most popular leading men (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) into female impersonators...