Word: chris
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what would Mitchum's wife do? (During his talking jag, Mitchum had blamed their separation on his marijuana smoking.) On her way to California with the children, Jimmie, 7, and Chris, 5, she had heard the news in Las Vegas, and announced that she was undecided. By the time she reached Hollywood, she told newsmen that she would "stand by" Bob. Next day, to an obbligato of clicking shutters, the Mitchums posed in Hollywood's traditional happy-home embrace. Bob wore his screen-lover expression. Hollywood anxiously hoped that a public which (it thinks) likes and expects happy...
...still alive, until his letter convinces her that she has no hope. Her characterization is a strong one, stronger than Robinson's, possibly because her scenes are less flossy than his and all of a piece--she does not have to make hypocrisy convincing. Burt Lancaster is an uneven Chris, vestiges of his "tough man" roles seem to get in his way too often for his own good. All in all, however, if you're in the mood for it, "All My Sons" is well worth a trip down-town...
...Keller manufactured and wittingly sent out during the war defective airplane parts which later cost the lives of twenty-one airplane pilots over Austria. The executioner of the gods in this instance is Joe's son Chris, home from the wars, and his instrument is the last letter of his brother Larry who died off the coast of China. Larry confessed in it that his father's scandal was more than he could bear and that his next mission would be his last. It is only the knowledge that he caused his own son's death which lays Joe open...
...bellowing Head of the Family, Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka), who loves to scare and scandalize all the relatives he dislikes, dies, with a drinker's gasp of satisfaction, after tossing off his last neat drink. Mama, by swapping recipes, wheedles a successful authoress (Florence Bates) into reading Katrin's stories and passing on the secret of literary success (write about what you know); Katrin grows up, to write the stories that tell the whole movie in flashbacks...
...DeWitt Bodeen; produced by Arthur J. Beckhard) is about a farm family named Bromark. It is rather like, if rather worse than, a good many other plays about farm families. Much happens in it, though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...