Word: vivian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turns out in the film, the story involves a young widow, Vivian Rutledge (Bacall) and a mysteriously all-knowing private dick by the name of Marlowe (Bogart). Marlowe is hired to investigate the facts behind the blackmailing of Vivian's maniae young sister Carmen; but as he investigates, he unearths mystery after mystery and murder after murder instead of mere blackmail. Amidst the razzle-dazzle, the spectator knows nothing except that Marlowe is never surprised...
...began quietly two years ago, when Colorado's Governor John C. Vivian appointed Florence Sabin chairman of a state postwar health committee. Dr. Sabin, bearing twelve honorary degrees, had come home to retirement in her native state after a busy life, most of it spent over a microscope studying blood cells and tuberculosis. She was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the first woman professor at Johns Hopkins University, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute...
...dinners and breakfasts, similar to those served at Harvard Houses, for $17.50 per week per couple. The Draytons and the Raymond W. Ralstons (he, a graduate student in Physics) feel "portions could be larger" at the hotel dining hall, while Harry Eckstein '46 (a government concentrator) and his wife, Vivian, say the food at the hotel "is better prepared than at the College Houses...
Three Little Girls in Blue--A big technicolor musical, featuring June Haver, Vivian Blaine, and Vera-Ellen, at the Metropolitan Thursday...
...temple. The development of Caesar, the materialist with an idealistic end, comes in snatches of crisp Shavian dialogue, but the entire effect is uneven and erratic. As the Roman conqueror, Claude Rains is excellent. He plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination of killer and nurse, handles herself with barbaric competence. Stewart Granger, who looks like the muscular product of a California beach, manages adequately to make about half the audience squeal ecstatically...