Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuart W. Webb...
Dana Andrews had the inherent intensity and toughness to be convincing as the hardboiled detective hero; Tom Neal, a good performer, has neither. In the movie, Clifton Webb was Waldo Lydecker--the actor could not be distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...
...hillbilly ballad The Martins and the Coys is a burlesque of backwoods feuding which will delight lovers of radio rurality and of Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those...
...Everett Webb Kennedy...
Divorced. Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, errant great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; by Lenore Lemmon, 22, Manhattan cafe character; after ten days of marriage, 4½ years of separation, no children; in West Palm Beach...