Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local eateries, a small room attached to the Pure Oil gas station just this side of the railway tracks that divides the town. The eatery is run by a tall woman, hair dyed an unnatural deep black, whose hips liked to brush against the hairy fingers of a customer. Sister of the gas-station's owner-manager, she was married and yet not married; some mystery surrounded her status...
...money in planning and publicity. He has also drawn upon that other great family resource: Kennedys. Pitching into his campaign, which included a whistle-stopping run across the state last week aboard his special "Wabash Cannonball Express," were Wife Ethel, Brother Teddy, Sons David and Michael, Daughter Courtney, Sisters Pat Lawford, Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver, Sister-in-Law Joan, Mother Rose and Dog Freckles...
Executors of the estate of the late Edna Ferber announced that the novelist left a fortune of more than $2,000,000, willed to her sister, two nieces, her maid, and to several charities...
...biggest sinner for them all is Delilah, and her characterization makes the film truly bizarre. In the classic story of good man led astray, DeMille pays little attention to the seduced here, concentrating instead on Delilah's lust for Samson. From her first appearance, as the kid sister of Samson's beloved, she is obviously excited by Samson's body, and her reaction to his outwrestling a lion is explicitly sexual. DeMille tentatively suggests Delilah's role as emasculating bitch (at one point she turns Samson into a docile houseboy), but ultimately backs away from this idea...
Angela Lansbury executes the thankless role of Delilah's spear-wielding sister, looking like a porcelain Valkyrie and apparently regarding with doubt her future as a blonde bombshell. Victor Mature, who plays Samson, is quite fat and quite bad, but he pulls down a wicked temple...