Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arms. On Lucas' behalf, Douglas and McAdams were using the same tactics they had used to get Douglas elected in 1948. Ever since 1942, when both tried unsuccessfully to buck the Kelly-Nash machine, "Spike" McAdams, a onetime professional bantamweight boxer, had been the devoted sidekick of ex-Professor Douglas. Like Douglas, who lost the use of his left arm while fighting with the Marines on Okinawa, McAdams, now a successful attorney, had lost his in action with the Navy at Leyte. Their 1948 technique had been to scour the state in a jeep, stopping at factories, filling stations...
...family breadwinner, who is horrified by the schemes hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from Frank Fontaine, who plays his dull-witted sidekick, and Evelyn Varden, his conscience-stricken mother...
...gentlemanly tout, Clarence Muse as a trainer, Douglas Dumbrille as a big-time gambler, Frankie Darro as a crooked jockey. As extra dividends, Capra has plumped out the cast with some new players who are a match for them, especially William Demarest, who plays Walburn's sidekick, Charles Bickford as a dyspeptic millionaire, Percy Kilbride as a hayseed, and Coleen Gray, who makes a refreshingly natural heroine...
...trumpeter's pianist sidekick, Hoagy Carmichael gives one of his effortless performances. Actor Douglas gives plenty of vitality to the central role, but he is called on to repeat a good deal of what he did in Champion; one scene, in which he bangs a trumpet to pieces and breaks into sobs, is almost a remake of the climax of his earlier film. Having discovered what Actor Douglas does best, Hollywood apparently is determined to work him to death...
...Louis Salve and his sidekick Gaston Lange, who had been a police inspector before the war, the postwar world looked bright indeed. When they dropped into their favorite cafe in the Rue Sorbier, the patron broke out the tricolor as a sign that Heroes of the Resistance were having a drink in his humble place. Lange and Salve spent a lot of time in the courts, where they were recognized as authorities on who had been a collaborator and who had not: again & again Lange and Salve testified that suspected traitors had in fact served with them in the Resistance...