Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Man with Ideas (MGM) would seem to be a misnomer for Actor Glenn Ford in this harebrained little comedy. Ford plays a Milquetoastish Montana lawyer who migrates to Los Angeles with his wife (Ruth Roman) and three children. There he finds himself preparing for the California bar examination with blonde Fellow Student Nina Foch, who has a habit of boning up on criminal law while attired in off-the-shoulder lounging pajamas. There is also Denise Darcel, an amorous French nightclub singer who wears low-cut dresses and is under the impression that Ford is a talent scout...
...that was once a bookie joint. The lawyer winds up in a nightclub brawl with mobsters, but does such a masterful job of defending himself in court that he wins an acquittal. He also passes the bar examination and wins a 34th partnership in a Los Angeles law firm. Ruth Roman sums it all up when she says at one point: "We never should have left Montana...
...parliament) squatting in the tribe's mud-hut capital of Serowe, he announced that the Great White Queen would never allow Seretse Khama, their Oxford-educated chief, to return to his people (TIME, April 7). According to the Queen's ministers, Seretse, by marrying blonde London Typist Ruth Williams, had been derelict in his public duty as chief: his marriage, like Edward VIII's, had compromised his crown. Dutiful Commissioner Batho thought it unnecessary to mention that 1) neighboring South Africa covets Bechuanaland's black labor force, 2) threatens to use Seretse's marriage...
...season's gayest comedies, Pat and Mike benefits by George Cukor's shrewd direction, the sprightly lines of Authors Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and the comic capering of Old Hands Hepburn and Tracy. Aldo Ray is amusing as a dumb boxer with a foghorn voice. There is a pungent gallery of prognathous fictional sports characters, while such real sports personalities as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Gussie Moran, Donald Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker and Betty Hicks show up in person...
...Manhattan, Novelist Ruth (All About Eileen) McKenney, who was notably humorless about her membership in the Communist Party a few years ago, told a New York Times reporter that she fears the American public is losing its taste for humor. Said she: "A lot of humor implies criticism of established institutions and behavior, and right now we're trying to keep our faith in the established order intact. [Self-appointed censors] want people to laugh only at the approved jokes. No more levity when it comes to religion, intelligence tests, foreign accents and insanity . . . Bad taste. Why, the great...