Word: britton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting is incredible. Pamela Britton, who plays the female lead, may well receive the award for the worst performance of the year. The greatest part of her role is accomplished in telephone conversation, and it seems that she is unfamiliar with the use of the instrument. She shouts, grimmaces, and whispers while her indifferent lover is miles away, and when she finally follows him to San Francisco she partakes in the most revolting love scene that I have ever seen...
Whites: Stargel, le; Nichols, lt; Kanter, lg; Lemay, c; Toepke, rg; Sedgwick, rt; Britton, re; Lowenstein, qb; O'Neill, lhb; Ederer, rhb; Blitz...
Aphorisms in the songs further demonstrate this spirit; Thomas Curtis' True Britton did "haste to the bottle and joyously sing," Joseph Baildon philosophized" Tis better to lie drunk than dead," and Thomas Arne's dilemma was "Which is the Properest Day to Drink...