Word: thaxter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentle young woman (played with great charm by Phyllis Thaxter) begins to be tortured by an ever more insistent inner voice, which urges her to throw over her fiance (Henry H. Daniels Jr.), leave her parents, and disappear. The voice wins. By the time her fiance finds her, a young lawyer (Horace McNally) is in love with her, and the inner voice has revealed itself as an industrious natural force whose components are lust and murder...
General Doolittle's role is short to offer more than a glimpse of Spencer Tracy. Lieutenant Lawson is the central figure of the story; as Lawson, Van Johnson proves that in addition to having a deceptively easy manner, this gentleman can really act. Phyllis Thaxter, a relatively new lady of the screen, delivers a genuinely convincing performance in the part of Lawson's young wife. Lawson's tail-gunner, Robert Walker, again portrays Robert Walker and again well...
Aren't you confusing talented Phyllis Thaxter, the Mrs. Lawson in 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (TIME, Dec. 4), with my talented grandmother Celia Thaxter...
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...TIME'S apologies to Grandson Thaxter for confusing his grandmother, Poet Celia, with Actress Phyllis, a distant relative. In her day Celia Thaxter was famed for her poems for children (notably The Sandpiper), her sketches of the grey New Hampshire coast and her summer garden "salon" on the Isles of Shoals, where her father, an exlighthouse-keeper, kept a popular hotel...