Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These situations are naturals for a movie, and Crosby, who plays Crosby--I mean Hank Martin--makes capital of them. He is ably assisted by William Bendix as Sir Sagramore, a sixth century Chester A. Riley, and by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the constantly harassed King Arthur...
Associate Dean Robert F. Watson '37 and a special administration committee made the decision after requests had been made by the Student Council and several House committees. Since the Gold Coasters were the first to ask for a Bendix, they were the House chosen for the one-year trial...
...oilfield roughneck. The tales of his business deals are almost matched by the stories of his rough & tumble brawling which has caused him to be barred from more than one Houston club. He likes expensive hobbies. Last year his planes came in one, two and four in the Bendix air race. He is rumored to be spending $100,000 to enter a car in this year's Indianapolis auto race. A crack shot, he spends much of his spare time hunting on his 15,000-acre ranch with his wife and five children. There are weeks when they...
...radio soap operas will be seen on television. For four years, a sharp-eyed young man named Irving Brecher has produced Riley, a radio show about one of those homey American families that persist in radio scripters' minds. Now he has put the program's star (William Bendix) and a cast of actors into an untidy little movie made up of short episodes and an endless crescendo of gags...
...Bendix plays a morose, bumbleheaded factory hand with a careful blend of "bathos, confusion and corny humor. His enemy is his landlady (Beulah Bondi); his daughter is being courted by the boss's son and the landlady's nephew; his old pals (including Jimmy Gleason) scorn him when he gets to be an executive, but welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes...