Word: preachments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanted (RKO Radio). When Tony Patucci (Charles Laughton), a porky, affable Italian winegrower in California's Napa Valley, tries to patch up a quarrel between his ranch foreman (William Gargan) and his mail-order bride (Carole Lombard), he argues that "Peoples no should fight," then speaks a little preachment on friendliness. During the filming of this scene one hot day last July, sprightly, spindly, 27-year-old Director Garson Kanin objected to Laughton's delivery as too much Laughton, not enough Tony. A director-actor fight followed which had Hollywood gossips' pens wagging for days, although...