Word: silently
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...never so much as sung Silent Night together before," explained mother Mary. But Columbia Records' Mitchell Miller was chewing his whiskers over the success of the Crosbys' hit for Decca; Mary and Larry, her son by her first marriage (to Texas Attorney Ben Hagman), were eager...
Some vagrant amusement is provided by Actor Webb's impersonation of a strong, silent westerner patterned after Gary Cooper, and by Jack La Rue's bit as a movie star who fancies himself the living model of the tough, coin-flipping gangster he plays on the screen. They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes...
Yard police said they became wary when 1,000 freshmen spilled from their dormitories into the Yard to listen, but considered the renditions of "Adeste Fidelis," "Noel," "Little Town of Bethlehem," and "Silent Night" were sufficiently good to warrant a non-interference policy...
...labored cues or excuses, relies on bouncy tunes and the simple showmanship of Durante and O'Connor instead of costly production routines. The plot is nonsense, and The Milkman's four scripters have tried to-use it wherever possible as a springboard for visual comedy in the silent-movie tradition. Unfortunately, the effort too often is no more inventive than the second-rate dialogue that overburdens Comedian Durante. The picture brightens considerably whenever the sight gags pay off, e.g., Durante cooking the breakfast eggs, toast and coffee on an electric blanket...