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Word: spencers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father's Little Dividend. In a lively sequel to the original Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett-Elizabeth Taylor comedy, the Father of the Bride becomes a grandfather (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...reaches television as a half-hour filmed show after a talent search that took four years. Heading the cast of characters originally created in blackface by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden in a quartercentury of radio shows: ex-Vaudevillian Tim Moore as the posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better two-reel comedies of silent movie days. The dialogue is above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Father's Little Dividend. In a lively sequel to the original Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett-Elizabeth Taylor comedy, the Father of the Bride suffers through the ordeal of becoming a grandfather (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 9, 1951 | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Father's Little Dividend. In a lively sequel to the original Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett-Elizabeth Taylor comedy, the Father of the Bride becomes a grandfather (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Father's Little Dividend. In a lively sequel to the original Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett-Elizabeth Taylor comedy, the Father of the Bride suffers through the ordeal of becoming a grandfather (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 25, 1951 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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