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Died. Hugh ("Woo Woo") Herbert, 66, veteran slapstick cinemactor (The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend), onetime honorary mayor of Studio City, Calif.; of a heart attack; in North Hollywood, Calif...
Feeney is also trying to woo more students from Radcliffe and Harvard to study in St. Benedict's. His promises include "Nice boys and girls you'll like," plus free room, board, and tuition. "We do a lot of things here you'll like," he says...
Thanks largely to a fine performance by Charles Laughton as a bumbling, middle-aged widower trying to woo his baby's pretty governess, The Blue Veil's first episode could hold its own as part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...
...time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony, Crosby pitches charm, song and the pathos of his wards, resorts to conspiratorial shenanigans with the help of his editor (Robert Keith), his would-be father-in-law (James Barton) and Tone's repressed cousin (Alexis Smith...
That indifference is part of her charm. Marlene Dietrich, who, at 48, is still one of the greatest glamor girls of them all, has set down three prerequisites for glamor. The first is that a star must not try too hard to woo the public, for the public reacts in the same way as a man who is chased too hard; indifferent Ava fulfills that condition. Prerequisite No. 2: a glamor girl must enjoy sex, rather than just pretend to enjoy it on the screen; Hollywood's enthusiastic consensus is that Ava Gardner fulfills that condition, too. Prerequisite...