Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objections, or thought he had. Came the day when the first scene was to be shot. As Fox later protested: sets were built, costumes on, extras standing by, cameras ready to roll. No Brando. Then came a telegram from his psychoanalyst in New York: Marlon was "a very sick and mentally confused boy," and in absolutely no condition to work. Fox threw Edmond Purdom into the Brando part, sued Marlon for $2,000 damages. Marlon settled the suit by agreeing to make Désirée, later gloated openly about his success in "copping a medical plea." After that...
...correspondent in his dressing room on the Désirée set, tried hard to scotch such talk and to explain his behavior. "I'll be damned if I feel obliged to defend myself," he burst out in a cultured and fervent half-whisper, "but I am sick to death of being thought of as a blue-jeaned slobbermouth and I am sick to death of having people come up and say hello and then just stand there expecting you to throw a raccoon at them. I have always hated the fact that I have been obliged...
...eight, Marlon brought home a live woman. "I found her lying near the lake, Mother," he said. "She's sick, and doesn't have any place to stay." (Mother put her up for the night in the local hotel.) Later he brought home a whole series of charity cases: his girl friends. Sighed his grandmother: "Marlon always fell for the cross-eyed girls...
Costs & Korea. The facts are that air freight has been a sick business for a long time, and even the two biggest lines were affected. The Flying Tigers and Slick both started up right after the war and had done well flying nonscheduled air-freight routes. All they needed, the freighters thought, was steady, scheduled runs to expand and cast a web of freight routes over the U.S. They got their scheduled routes in 1949, but then the dreams began to dissolve...
...City, Ala., when three bloodhounds were put on the trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...