Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wedding Presents. B. H. &G. is the major moneymaker of Des Moines's huge Meredith Publishing Co., a family-owned concern which during its last fiscal year netted $2,862,276. Among the Meredith publications: Successful Farming (circ. 1,200,000), beamed at prosperous Midwest farm families, and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, which has sold 3,000,000 copies (87,000 so far this year). Last week the sprawling Meredith plant along the banks of the Raccoon River was spreading out again. It needed more space to house its peak staff (1,446) and five...
Alexander Korda imported Burgess Meredith to England to play the thoughtful, smiling, pipe-smoking analyst, who, exasperated by his ineffectual, though devoted spouse, falls in love with another woman. So intent is he on curing a young ex-flyer who has tried to kill his own wife, that the psychiatrist is unable to patch up the disintegrating marriage in his own home...
Most of the Jerry-built thrills are saved for the last few minutes of the picture where they are rapidly stacked one on another until everyone is exhausted. When the rubble is cleared away, Meredith decides to stick to his job even though he had been blamed for letting his dangerous patient run loose. What's more, he realizes that his wife is "all he has" and somehow finds his own case cured. Mixed up in the end of the film is the implication that Meredith's own affair blinded him to the condition of his patient which ended...
...acting, though, is excellent right down the line. Meredith is only Meredith, but it fits. Dulcie Gray as his wife mixes helplessness with devotion and comes up with the correct martyrdom. But little black-haired Barbara White, who is on screen for ten minutes as the flyer's wife, is on her way to stardom. A mobile face that coordinates magically with her lines enables Miss White to strip everything unessential and distracting from the heart of her role. Kieron Moore stalks sulkily as her moody, proud, and dangerous husband...
Married. Herbert Hoover III, 21, Menlo Junior College (Calif.) student, grandson of the 31st President of the U.S., son of Geophysicist Herbert Jr.; and Meredith McGilvray, 21, a childhood sweetheart, now a Stanford University Coed; in Virginia City...