Word: rattlebrain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...archfoe" of the elderly. Reason: movies portray old age as "a trap, a pit, a hopeless end,'' and glorify "teenage super-beauties as the American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable. Retorted the Motion Picture Association of America: Senator Desmond is making "a desperate play for publicity . . . [and] failed to check...
| 1 |