Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fore and after holds are full of fish, by which time Harvey will have earned $9. In the sweat-steaming, overheated fo'c'sle, sometimes in the dory of Manuel (Spencer Tracy), the Portuguese crew member who boat-hooked him from the liner's creaming wake, always beset by the wild and hairy faces of these shipmates whose lives, like their bodies, had been twisted into frightening shapes by their long combat with the sea. Harvey begins his quest for something he can chart a course...
...Wake Up and Live (Twentieth Century-Fox) preserves for posterity, at one & the same time, the amiable radio feud between Columnist Walter Winchell and Bandleader Ben Bernie, and the uplift message of the best-seller by Dorothea Brande, from which it takes its title. That this almost impudently daring tour de force turns out to be wholly successful is due to shrewd manipulations by Producer Kenneth MacGowan and to a narrative by Screenwriters Curtis Kenyon. Jack Yellen and Harry Tugend which for sheer ingenuity is possibly the season's high...
...Wake Up and Live, Winchell appears as Wrinchell, Bernie as Bernie. The Brande moral emerges in the person of a modest little vaudeville actor named Eddie Kane (Jack Haley), brother of Winchell's secretary Patsy Kane (Patsy Kelly), who, when his sister gets him a radio audition, is so terrified of the microphone that he cannot make a sound. To cure himself of his psychosis, Eddie tries singing into a "dead mike." The microphone, not dead at all, is connected with the one on which the Bernie Band is broadcasting. Eddie's voice makes him instantly famed...
...that is, at most, only the half of it. There are songs. These were written by Cammann Newberry, '37, Benjamin Welles, '38, and Gaspar Bacon, Jr., '37, and very well written, too. The title piece, "Wake Up and Swing", and "There's No Wolf Around My Door", might fairly safely have modest success predicted for them in the great outer world. Welles and Bacon have established themselves as most versatile artists indeed. Each had a share in writing the clever book. Bacon did some of the lyrics, and played a prominent role, the broad-if none too deeply-minded Lady...
...Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry [the dead man], don't." But Mrs. Love did not wake up and doctors continued to nourish her through a vein with a solution of salt and sugar...