Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tugboat Annie Sails Again (Warner) revives the hardheaded, soft-hearted old salt who, in her Satevepost exploits, bulldozes the boys around Tacoma's water front. Seasoned, frog-voiced Marjorie Rambeau puts on Marie Dressler's costume; villainized, kinky-haired Alan Hale plays the Wallace Beery part of Bullwinkle, Annie's rival. Like all good skates on the screen, Annie builds herself a heap of trouble before she rescues the mortgage and gets the young folks (Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman) together for a happy ending. The result is passable, not irresistible...
...Grace Rardin Eames Doherty, Oilman Henry L. Doherty left his entire fortune, "substantially in excess of $1,000,000" (1929 estimate: $100,000,000). To 21-year-old Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge, onetime telephone operator, daughter of a Canadian tugboat captain and widow of Automobile Heir Daniel Dodge, who drowned on their honeymoon, a Detroit probate court judge awarded $1,250,000. Two of the dead man's sisters, horsy Isabel Dodge Sloane and Winifred Dodge Seyburn (who inherited nothing), let it be known they would not let Annie get away with...