Word: dr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue...
...Dr. Moreno was a short, heavy-set man whose pale eyes and greying countenance made him look not unlike a Rivera self-portrait in lithograph...
...preliminary talk before giving his first demonstration, Dr. Moreno said he was "like Freud an innovator. . . an inventor of gadgets--social gadgets...Psychoanalyst's couch, which is a mess, as you know. The patient couldn't get out and fight! Couldn't make love to anybody! He was tied down. The whole orientation of psychoanalysis has developed out of the patient's recumbent position." Dr. Moreno punctuated his remarks with colorful gestures, and his gusto of delivery could qualify him for another role--that of basso buffo...
...will be first?" A young man named Tom came forth from the audience. "You're the one I spoke to earlier, aren't you?" asked Dr. Moreno, softly. Tom's problem was getting a date. "Ahha! With a boy or a girl? A girl? Select one from the audience to act with you...Do you know many girls, Tom?" Yes sir, "Ah, well, the more you know, the less you have...
...acting out the situation, Dr. Moreno's assistant, a Miss Tocman, served as the girl. Her "stage" experience proved too much for Tom. She twisted his attempts at casual pre-class time talk into insults. Tom still didn't get the date...