Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gracious Living...
Last year's contest was won by Bertram Hall with a "gracious-living" take off in song. Other outcries parodied musical hits of the year, for the pleasure of the large crowd. Five Moors Hall contestants added to the festivities by flipping up their skirls in a grand finale...
Though the narrators' hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...another he wrote: "My Dear Governor- . . . Because you are more experienced in handling the affairs of this State in time of crisis than any other citizen, I feel impelled ... to urge that you consent to seek re-election." Said a Republican leader: "May God bless Joe Hanley for his gracious and patriotic act." This week Tom Dewey cut short his political "retirement" and announced that he would run for a third term as governor. "There is one condition I should like to attach," said Dewey in a letter to obliging Joe Hanley. The condition: that Hanley...
Then he overreaches himself, gets involved in double-crossing and murder, makes an enemy of the national gambling syndicate's gracious, cultured boss (Otto Kruger). The moral: crime pays handsomely, but greed does...