Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current '47, his friend John Hersey spoke up for him, giving some lowdown that was news even to Capa's publishers. Capa, said Hersey, is "The Man Who Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them off as the work of one Capa, a talented visitor from America. It worked in reverse, too, when they sold Capa to U.S. publishers as a talented Frenchman. Eventually, after his girl Gerda...
...hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course, on the transfigured Miss Lupino, her violent sweetheart and their hopeless romance...
Moss Rose (20th Century-Fox) is used in this thriller as a murderer's signature. Every time sinister-looking Victor Mature moves on to a new sweetheart, the flower is found on an open Bible beside the corpse of the girl he has just left. Peggy Cummins, a cockney showgirl who wants to be a lady, blackmails Mature into taking her for a visit to his elegant country mansion. There she hobnobs uneasily with his jealous fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his magnificent old mother (Ethel Barrymore). She also tries to play detective, and falls in love with...
Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, who used to be billed by Hollywood as "America's Boy Friend" before he married Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford, flew into New York for a tenth wedding anniversary celebration, pitched into an old-timey movie clinch for photographers (see cut). The boy friend was now a greying 42, the sweetheart...
...April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...