Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party, when a CBS executive heard him, auditioned him for the Burns & Allen show. Then Movie Director Clarence Brown saw him dancing with Gracie Allen at a party, and signed him for a picture. Since then he has made more than a dozen unsensational B-movies (Sweet Adeline, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi) and a fairly sensational $100,000 a year...
Meanwhile Johnny's true sweetheart, Nell, has remained unmarried. Now she promises to wait for Johnny and does so, during the months when he is with the Union Army from Chickamauga to Savannah. But when Johnny is wounded, the report gets back that he is dead. Nell marries Garwood and dies in childbirth...
...Call You Sweetheart. Author St. John traveled through Titoland with a "change of clothes ... a Boy Scout knife, six cans of DDT, a pencil sharpener, and a considerable quantity of paper." He also took along an interpreter-a Russian-born American girl whose "small, vibrant figure" quivered with eagerness "to answer . . . the riddles of the New Yugoslavia...
...graduates from the amateur fighter class and travels fast. The faster he travels, the dirtier the racket gets. He is disgusted, but in his vanity and his desire for money he rationalizes about the general ugliness of the ringside business, and thus alienates his mother (Anne Revere) and his sweetheart (Lilli Palmer). He agrees to throw his last fight before retiring, but recovers his integrity in time, whales hell out of his opponent and wins back Miss Palmer...
...devout Baron (Ledoux) and to his worldly prospective son-in-law. When the plot gets too complicated, the Devil himself turns up, disguised as a very nasty gentleman, and complicates matters still further. Arletty's lovers are certified for Hell; but Hell's unfaithful minstrel and his sweetheart, thanks to the white magic of True Love, fight the Devil to a draw...