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...when I was twelve. It was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn sort of thing. It has lots of other highlights: it'll take in the trial-you know, this Daisy [De Boe] trial. Well, she was my secretary and she blackmailed me ... It won't be a sob story either . . . It'll be sort of a helpful story to girls who want to try for pictures and are very poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Roses All the Way | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Judy learned that her studio had suspended her again for repeated failure to show up for work, she locked herself in the bathroom, broke a water glass and scratched herself on the neck with the ragged edge. The Los Angeles Mirror headlined JUDY GARLAND CUTS THROAT-and all the sob sisters were off in full cry. Judy's husband, topnotch Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli, assured reporters that the incident was "too trivial" to discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Manhattan's independent radio station WNEW, convinced that listeners want mostly music and news, has placarded buses and taxis with the promise that there are "no sob stories. . . no horror stories" on WNEW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Happy Station | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Before a news-and-music-loving listener had time to switch to another station, the announcer broke in with: "Who cares? This is WNEW, our happy station. No sob stories . . . just plenty of good music and the latest news 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Happy Station | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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