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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paso (Paramount) is a morally cross-eyed western about a young Eastern lawyer (John Payne) who has trouble telling right from wrong. Payne, just back from the Civil War, arrives in El Paso in search of his sweetheart (Gail Russell) and finds the town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Married. Levi Jackson, 22, Yale's star halfback and first Negro sport captain, and Virginia Lucille Moore, 22, his high-school sweetheart; in New Haven, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...years of law school, gregarious, piano-playing Jimmy Walker set out to write songs for a living. He had only one big hit, Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, but he made a million friends in Manhattan. In 1912, Jimmy married his sweetheart, Janet ("Allie") Allen, to a medley of "Here Comes the Bride" and Witt You Love Me in December? All his life a 10 o'clock scholar, Jimmy was more than two hours late for the wedding. Two years later, after having served as an assemblyman, Walker was elected to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. New York | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...instructor at The Academy Fortunately gifted with more than a little insight and maturity, Guy Hudson unsuccessfully bucks the sham and hypocrisy of the school's ingrown existence, causing a mild upheaval in the Faculty. He is all too glad to leave The Academy in June with his pregnant sweetheart (a teacher at the neighboring Girls' School...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...remembered for his excellent performance in "Red River," does rather well as the hero, a tough sea captain. Where the script calls for fast, brutal action, Mr. Wayne provides some exciting moments, but he is obviously ill at ease when required to drool into the ear of his sweetheart, Gail Russell. Luther Adler plays opposite Wayne as a calculating Dutch trader. The part written for him is so ridiculous, so frighteningly sinister that it becomes impossible to tell whether he can act or not. A ham could wallow in this muck forever and no one would be the wiser...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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