Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down and down he goes after that, saucing up all day and bedding down at night with his friends' wives, until one day the studio hatchet man (Wendell Corey) drops in "to throw the raw meat on the floor." The girl (Shelley Winters), who was with the star on the night of his accident, has been drinking fast and talking loose. "She's dishonest," somebody remarks. "She won't stay bought." The hatchet man concludes: "She'll have to be removed." Murder, however, is too rich for the star's blood. He lets the producer...
...striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps best of all is Wendell Corey as the sort of operator who has long since opened his veins, let out all the poetry and filled up with Prestone for life's long winter...
With Charles Laughton, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish...
...satisfied simply with winning the Canadian 400-yd. medley relay championship, the Walter Reed Hospital Swim Club team (TIME, Apr. 18) set a world record besides. Splashing in perfect form through the University of McGill pool in Montreal, Mary Jane Sears, 15, Wanda Werner, 14, Shelley Mann, 17, and Susan "Dougie" Gray, 15, covered the distance in 4:30.5, nearly two seconds faster than the old record they had set themselves...
Robert Mitchum, the preacher, knows that somewhere around the small Ohio River valley house of Widow Shelley Winters he will find a $10,000 cache. Numskull Shelley, who does not believe the money is there, falls for Mitchum's hell fire because she thinks she will find a spark of romance behind it all. But Preacher Mitchum, who thinks sex and painted women are an abomination, really wants to get his switchblade knife on Shelley's two small children, since they are the only ones who know where the loot is hidden...