Paul Gallico


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Bitter Victory (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Be Quick About It! In North Africa, Welshman Leith (Richard Burton) is left behind, ordered by his superior to oversee death of two mortally wounded soldiers, one German (Raoul Delfosse) and one British (Andrew Crawford), in Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory, 1958.
Lili (1953) -- (Movie Clip) You Have No Family? Everyone’s French and idyllic, Jean Pierre Aumont, Kurt Kasznar and Mel Ferrer haggling over fruit when title character Leslie Caron (in her first role after An American In Paris), arrives, her expectations let down, Alex Gerry as a storekeeper, opening the MGM fantasy musical hit Lili, 1953.
Lili (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Very Interesting Fellow 16-year-old French orphan Leslie Caron (title character), fired from the carnival after failure as a waitress, moping until puppeteer Paul (Mel Ferrer) sees an opportunity, draws her into conference with his puppets, based on other members of the troupe, in MGM’s Lili, 1953.
Merry Andrew (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Everything Is Tickety-Boo Now ebullient English public schoolmaster Andrew (Danny Kaye) has permission to resume his amateur archaeology, headed for Sussex with his theme song by Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer, spying Pier Angeli, her first appearance, in a makeshift shower, in Merry Andrew, 1958.
Pride Of The Yankees, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) What Your Mother Wants Young Lou Gehrig (not-so-young Gary Cooper), a student-waiter at the fraternity where his mother works, with vivacious Myra (Virginia Gilmore), later teased by frat boys, and ejecting sportswriter Blake (Walter Brennan), in Samuel Goldwyn's The Pride Of The Yankees, 1943.
Pride Of The Yankees, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Lou Lou Lou! Elaborate recreation of a real event from the 1928 World Series, Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) hitting two home runs "for" ailing Billy (Gene Collins), family (Ludwig Stossel, Elsa Janssen) and spouse Eleanor (Teresa Wright) on the radio, in The Pride Of The Yankees, 1943.
Pride Of The Yankees, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) The Last Straw On the team train, (the real!) Babe Ruth and fellow Yankees (Mark Koenig, Bill Dickey et al) sucker Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) into a joke, sportswriters Hank (Dan Duryea) and Sam (Walter Brennan) observing, in The Pride Of The Yankees, 1943.
Clock, The -- (Movie Clip) Busted Heel Corporal Allen (Robert Walker), adrift in Grand Central Station, meets New Yorker Alice (Judy Garland) in the first scene from Vincente Minnelli's home-front romance The Clock, 1945.
Clock, The -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening title sequence from MGM's 1945 hit The Clock, starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, famously rescued after a rough start by director Vincente Minnelli.

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