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Word: risdon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovable, half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy (Elizabeth Risdon), a cinemaddict, has spent a lifetime knitting her husband a sweater, but has never finished it. There is also cheap, dissatisfied Florrie Halevy (Lee Patrick), who henpecks her bill-collector husband (Roscoe Karns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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