Word: transients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nancy Angel (Dorothy Lamour) wants to be an artist, Bobby (Betty Hutton) an ace reporter, Patti (Mimi Chandler) a Shakespearean actress, Josie (Diana Lynn) a composer. Between daydreams and quarrels they pick up spare cash by staging musical acts at a local roadhouse. There they run afoul of a transient bandleader, Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who promptly advises Cinemactress Lamour: "Let's not fight this thing, it's bigger than both of us." She is not impressed, but innocent Cinemactress Hutton...
...that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling - things that never happen, so it seems, if someone is looking. . . . Since all the doors and windows were open in the heat, there was a perpetual sighing and ceasing sound, the voice of the transient and the perishing, it seemed, coming and going like human breath, while in the looking-glass things had ceased to breathe and lay still in the trance of immortality...
...Richard C. Gill brought back a big supply of curare from the jungles, hoping it would help spastic paralysis (TIME, July 22, 1940). It was not much help, because its effects are transient. But doctors soon began to use curare to pre vent bone breaking in metrazol shock treatments for insanity...
Morgan's Creek is the home town of Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), a daftly endearing innocent who gradually remembers one morning that she married a transient soldier the night before-his name was something, she recalls, like Private Ratzkywatzsky. Presently she also realizes that she is pregnant. Fond as she is of her widower Poppa (William Demarest), she knows better than to confide in him; he has the worst film temper since the twilight of the Keystone Cops. But her young sister Emily (Diana Lynn) knows precisely what Trudy must do. She must marry Norval before he knows what...
...tried out his sales plan in Baltimore. ("If a product goes over in Baltimore, it will go over anywhere.") He sold over 225 paintings in a one-week stand, but lost money through heavy promotional expenses. He also discovered that people do not want to buy art from a transient art dealer. So Pochapin rented his Manhattan Hall...