Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rachel and the Stranger (RKO Radio) has been rushed into the theaters ahead of schedule because RKO hoped to cash in on Robert Mitchum's sudden notoriety. No one had a right to expect the movie would be much good, but it is. The first Mitchum film out since his arrest for smoking marijuana (TIME, Sept. 13), it turns out to be a pretty entertaining comedy-drama...
...setting is the Western Reserve, in the early 1800s, when the West was in Ohio. Widower David Harvey (William Holden) buys Bondwoman Rachel (Loretta Young) for $22, marries her, and brings her back to his remote cabin. He treats her like a servant and his little boy Davey treats her like dirt. When David's old friend, deep-woods Hunter Jim (Robert Mitchum), turns up, Rachel looks to him like fair game. He is indecently polite to her, openly courts her, even offers a better price for her than David paid in the first place. The wooing and wrangling...
...seems, the picture does not really explore frontier manners very deeply. If the U.S. backwoods a century later is any indication, even the best-beloved frontier wives were treated like servants in those days, and it never occurred to them to make any objections. But in its own terms, Rachel is an engaging and unpretentious show...
...jury on two counts (possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws). Meanwhile, his studio (RKO) hastened to make hay. Pleasantly amazed at the rash of public sympathy and sentimentality over Mitchum's trouble, the studio planned an immediate release of Bob's latest movie (Rachel and the Stranger, co-starring Loretta Young, and presenting Mitchum as a frontier home-wrecker...
When Dr. Martin Bernfield died in San Antonio two years ago, his office nurse, Rachel Starr, found herself with $44,000, the savings of 27 years, and nothing to do. But she had an idea. Bernfield had made a professional hobby of treating San Antonio's Negroes, and Mrs. Starr remembered his recurring anger whenever he couldn't get a patient into one of the two-dozen hospital beds available for the city's 25,000 Negroes. Why not, she thought, build and run a hospital for Negroes? As she put "it to herself...