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Word: shelfload (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bette Davis. But this time Miss Davis leaves the abnormal psychology to Miriam Hopkins and portrays a novelist who never gets around to marrying. She writes well but unprofitably. Her friend (Miriam Hopkins) is a mental charlotte russe who, out of subconscious jealousy of Novelist Davis, froths out a shelfload of bestsellers. As Author Hopkins' royalties soar, her husband (John Loder) sinks more & more to the status of a cute trick to have around the house. He falls in love with Miss Davis, who refuses to betray her helpless, foolish friend. In early middle age Miss Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1943 | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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