Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round of drinks: "I have an old beat-up legman here, or legwoman, rather, who helps me with odds and ends around the house, such as bearing children, finding collar buttons, and making drinks for guests. How about...
Obiter Dictum. In Fort Worth, 6-ft.-10, 300-lb. L. J. Mitchell was granted a divorce when he testified that his wife had fired a rifle at him, but Judge Frank P. Culver mused: "I don't see how she missed...
Alexander Korda imported Burgess Meredith to England to play the thoughtful, smiling, pipe-smoking analyst, who, exasperated by his ineffectual, though devoted spouse, falls in love with another woman. So intent is he on curing a young ex-flyer who has tried to kill his own wife, that the psychiatrist is unable to patch up the disintegrating marriage in his own home...
...minutes of the picture where they are rapidly stacked one on another until everyone is exhausted. When the rubble is cleared away, Meredith decides to stick to his job even though he had been blamed for letting his dangerous patient run loose. What's more, he realizes that his wife is "all he has" and somehow finds his own case cured. Mixed up in the end of the film is the implication that Meredith's own affair blinded him to the condition of his patient which ended in tragedy...
...acting, though, is excellent right down the line. Meredith is only Meredith, but it fits. Dulcie Gray as his wife mixes helplessness with devotion and comes up with the correct martyrdom. But little black-haired Barbara White, who is on screen for ten minutes as the flyer's wife, is on her way to stardom. A mobile face that coordinates magically with her lines enables Miss White to strip everything unessential and distracting from the heart of her role. Kieron Moore stalks sulkily as her moody, proud, and dangerous husband...