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Presenting Lily Mars (M.G.M.) is a conventional screen version of 73-year-old Booth Tarkington's tale of a stagestruck small-town girl. This juvenile darling (Judy Garland) gets to Broadway before you can say Jake Shubert, marries a great producer (Van Heflin), and is soon seen swaying in black tulle in a super-sumptuous musical show staged by the lucky fellow...
...flossy china for a terribly bad dinner. Laid in 1916, it describes how a young bride for whom childbearing would be dangerous (Geraldine Fitzgerald) dreams the life of her unborn son (Gregroy Peck) all the way to 1942. It is a pretty hackneyed life most of the way - a Tarkington childhood, a Scott Fitzgerald youth, a John Dos Passos coming-of-age ; and it halts on the tragic threshold of war. But the young bride decides to have a child nevertheless: whatever the risks for her and the penalties for him, life must...
...before gas rationing many a motorist stopped at the pound on the city's outskirts, for $4 rescued a pup from homelessness or death. Now there were few such rescuers. To the Indianapolis City Council, about to debate opening a dog shop in the center of town, Novelist Tarkington wrote a letter: ". . . Out of the myriads of creatures upon the earth only one, the dog . . . crossed the vast abyss that separates the species ... I find few things in life more touching. . . . What is man's response? . . . What of the underprivileged [dogs] who can't even hope...
Half-blind Novelist Booth Tarkington, was awarded the [Theodore] Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal, commented on his 73rd anniversary: "I'm not old enough to glory in it, and I'm too old to be cheerful about it." Condoled his chauffeur, "You're looking good...
...picture is a faithful adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1918 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about the effect of U.S. industrialism on the feudal Midwest as embodied in the Ambersons. Founder of this dynasty (in 1873) is sharp-trading Major Amberson (Richard Bennett), who has become so rich that the magnificence of the Ambersons stands out in their little clapboard town like a plaid suit at a funeral. Last and worst of the clan is spoiled, arrogant Grandson George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who gets his deserved "comeuppance" (in 1912) from the new industrialism which his baronial mind can neither...