Word: subplot
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...anything about myself," said he frankly, "but I cannot take responsibility for another human being." At hearing's end, it looked as if Miller would get 1) his passport, 2) a contempt citation for clamming about his old friends. But he soon reduced the hearing to a subplot and grabbed the headlines by unclamming about a newer friend. To newsmen, Miller confided that he needs a passport by July 13, the day that Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe flies to London to begin work on The Sleeping Prince with Sir Laurence Olivier. Reason: "She will go as Mrs. Miller." Later...
...chorus of "In the Good Old Summertime." She does have a minute to herself in the third scene when she dances with little Robert Jennings, but the enthusiasm of the audience goes unrewarded and the play plods forward without an encore. By cutting some of the dull subplot of ingenue Carol Leigh and dancer Ray Malone, the producers could add a raucous number to Miss Booth's vaudeville scene. She belted out such songs in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and another would brighten the second...
...repairing its war-bombed town clock. Peace is finally restored to the community when the clock is unveiled. The movie was shot in 1950, not in Fiumicino, where political tensions were too acute, but in the ancient town of Terracina (pop. 15,600). The movie introduces a minor romantic subplot involving a pretty schoolteacher and a Popular Frontist, but is otherwise generally faithful to the original news story. Directed with an earthy flavor...
...band (which he led under five Presidents -from Rutherford Hayes to Benjamin Harrison). In 1892 he formed his own band, which successfully toured the world. For musical variety, there are snatches from some of Sousa's light operas. And for romance, there is a fictional-and fairly flat-subplot involving a young marine in Sousa's band (Robert Wagner) and a burlesque beauty (Debra Paget...
Roaming the Mediterranean during the 18th century. Pirate Lancaster and his capering, cutthroat crew outwit the King of Spain's men on sea. land and even in the air-by means of an anachronistic balloon. There is also a subplot about El Libre (Frederick Leister), a democratic rebel, and his pretty daughter (Eva Bar-tok), who is loved by Lancaster...