Word: uppercrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...
...with the Yank sergeant, decides to marry him instead of a suave, handsome British officer (Rex Harrison). The Duke smiles on the match. In the end, only the fortunes of war prevent an alliance which would have electrified Arizona and doubtless demolished forever the legend of a snobbish British uppercrust...
...previous campaigns, Mayor Jeffries won by a 2-to-1 majority, with the support of the C.I.O. as well as the white-collar and uppercrust vote. But this time the restive, powerful United Auto Workers (C.I.O.) wanted a man of their own. They picked FitzGerald, a balding Irish attorney who showed surprising strength in 1940 as a Democratic opponent to veteran Senator Arthur Vandenberg. U.A.W. gathered a $30,000 war chest, lavished most of it on last week's primaries, and got out the biggest local labor vote since...
Dripping real and fake jewelry, the vivacious, smartly gowned Countess endeared herself to Detroit's uppercrust as lecturer and hostess (she served sherry with a dash of British accent). She kept: 1) a bottle of invisible ink in her apartment kitchen, 2) a black-and-green notebook containing the names of 200 "in fluential" people living in the U.S. For two years - since U.S. agents first called on her for a long, heart-to-heart talk -the Countess has played a dangerous double game: she has bossed the spy ring with one hand, tipped...
...Saturday there will be "Ruggles of Red Gap" and "Kitty Foyle." Ruggles is the English butler who showed Red Gap's uppercrust how to live, only to find he liked their way better. Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland combined to make this a howling success several years ago and it should be every bit as amusing now. The companion-piece is Christopher Morley's tale of the trials of the white-collar girl. Its star is Ginger Rogers and her performance won her the Academy Award, but "Kitty Foyle" is still feminine fodder. Grab 'em while...