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Item, Plot: Choose something with what they call "wacky charm" (like, laughable English wife of American schnook hooks up with gruff Italian husband of American cutie, because schnook and cutie have already hooked themselves up, and English and Italian want to effect a decoupling, an' what happens but that they [Anglo-Italian] fall in love, an' decide to throw away all their money, an' get all happy and mystic and meaningless an' stuff...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Tchin-Tchin | 10/8/1962 | See Source »

...based it on real life-all about a star's husband (played by Yves Montand) who wants to make it on his own in Japan. Deadpans Shirley: "I've got to be good in this picture, or I'll make my husband look like a schnook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Mr. Parker's Geisha | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad for his bosses and their girls, in an excellent movie that mixes comedy, pathos and a tough sense of irony about life. With Shirley MacLaine as fetching as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...Apartment. Writer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad for his bosses and their girls, in an excellent movie that mixes comedy, pathos and a tough sense of irony about life. With Shirley MacLaine as fetching as ever, and Fred MacMurray as toothy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...Yule dating has blossomed into a mass of exam-time engagements. Perhaps the most astonishing of recent announcements was that of Otto Van der Meyermoot 7G and Gloria Schnook '62. "I'm pretty happy," said Miss Schnook. "We plan to get married three years from next December, after Otto finishes his tenth year at the Center for Australian Studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffies Thrilled By Nuptial Bells | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

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