Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald) are more admirable than the pack of voracious relatives who are snarling over scraps of a great estate. Ilka Chase...
...years without rewinding, Toscanini beamed happily and said: "Just think, when this clock stops, no one here in this room will be here but me." Last week Carla was in Italy, and son Walter and his family were staying with the Maestro at the big house in Riverdale. Daughter Wanda visits frequently (with her pianist husband, Vladimir Horowitz). He often talks by telephone with his other daughter Wally, the Countess Castel-barco, who lives in Italy...
Test Run. In Cincinnati, workmen erecting a fire escape on the Wanda Lee Apartments accidentally set the building on fire...
...theme, and six grand is the pay-off. A carnival and merry-go-round provide a unique backdrop for the routine slug-fest that Hollywood associates with the underworld; and despite some stereotyped aspects, the story has few lapses. Montgomery dead-pans adequately and playing opposite is Wanda Hendrix who does her best to appear Mexican and inscrutable, providing good contrast for the know-it-all Montgomery...
...Hollywood, Audie Murphy, 23, World War II's "most-decorated soldier," made a joint announcement with Actress Wanda Hendrix, in Hollywood's early-bird style. The announcement: they were about to announce their engagement...