Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green Light from Reno. In 1937, when love bloomed, he, Michael Conway, an editor of the now defunct New Masses, was writing a book on U.S. labor leaders. She, Ruth McKenney, was writing a history of the Ohio rubber workers. The two met on a green hillside near New Milford, Conn, to exchange data...
Married. Francis Joseph ("Muggsy") Spanier, 46, sad-eyed hot-jazz cornetist; and Ruth Gries O'Connell, 44, onetime advertising copywriter; both for the second time; in Chicago...
Autobiographer Ruth McKenney has been at it ever since she was 26, when
Dear Wife (Paramount). The movie sequel is an old Hollywood custom designed to repeat a success by imitating it. More often, as with this pale wraith of 1947's Dear Ruth, it succeeds only in running a good thing into the ground. With the same principals playing for farce in the same suburban setting, Dear Wife sadly lacks a script to measure up to the original...
...Ruth (Joan Caulfield) is married now to her wartime beau (William Holden), but her meddlesome bobby-soxer sister (Mona Freeman) is still meddling. This time Mona puts Holden up for state senator without his knowledge. The rival candidate: her father (Edward Arnold), With Holden taking an interest in the campaign and family feelings already strained, the script drags a redhead across his trail to alienate his wife. Then it goes on alienating the moviegoer...