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...vexation of lab assistant Hillary Brooke. Through some strenuous plot exertions, Marshall has a fight on her penthouse terrace with another scheming scheming woman, who plunges to her death on the sidewalk below. "Fell right on her face," a bystander observes. "They wouldn't be able to tell who it is." Marshall, lurking out of sight, overhears this: cue the identity switch! It's one of those movies where a slight style change keeps people from recognizing the lead character. Superman had his spectacles; Marshall has a new hairdo. The movie needed a makeover...
...following year Mann made Raw Deal, which dispensing with heroes altogether. There are only victims and villains, and it's often not easy to tell them apart. A guy named Joe (Dennis O'Keefe) has been wrongly imprisoned, fingered by his old pals. He breaks out of prison and goes on the run with two gals, a nice social worker, Ann (Marsha Hunt), whom he takes as a hostage, and a tough gal, Pat (Claire Trevor), who helped spring him from stir. Both are doomed to be in love with...
...rancher and his enforcer) and gals (Lynn Whitney as McGraw's surly wife). The movie also has style to spare, especially in the pearly flashes of white amid the dark skies and darker hills. Somebody had seen Que Viva Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein's 1932 paean to peons. We'll tell you who that somebody was in a minute...
...took a chance encounter with a Presbyterian pastor to do that. A few years ago Edwards' pastor in Lexington happened to tell her a story about a man in his 40s who discovered that he had a brother with Down syndrome whom he'd never met - the brother had died in an institution before the man even learned he existed. That anecdote became the seed of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which begins one snowy night in 1964 with the birth of a pair of twins. One is a healthy boy, Paul, the other is a girl with Down syndrome...
...straightforward, thoughtful and deliberate. Born in Texas and raised in upstate New York, she spent her entire life planning to be a writer. "When I was very, very young, I just knew that that was something I wanted to do," she says. "Before I could read, my mother will tell stories of how I would just pester her constantly to read to me." When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa...