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Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan

Ellen Johnson

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When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard "Now's...

Livable Cities of the Future: Proceedings of a Symposium Honoring the Legacy of George Bugliarello

National Academy of Engineering, Mohammad Karamouz, Thomas F. Budinger and N.Y.U. Polytechnic school of

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At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in...

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

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Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

1936 | Classics, Comedy, Romance

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"This is between Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Hmm, I’m going to go with Mr. Deeds. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur. It’s just an amazing film. It’s very funny. Longfellow Deeds is the main character, Gary Cooper plays him and he’s so appealing. I think it’s the definition of appeal. So Longfellow Deeds is this guy who lives in this tiny town, he’s makes a living writing greeting cards. Just a sweet guy. There’s a distant relative who’s this gigantic millionaire. Has a huge fortune. So this industrialist dies in New York City and they trace [him] down, he’s the only heir to this huge fortune. So they bring him to New York and now he runs this company. [But] this really ace reporter for the local paper wants to get the dirt on him, and [she’s played by] Jean Arthur. So she waits for him to come out and she acts like she’s starving, like she’s a homeless woman during the Depression. So he picks her up and feeds her some food and they start doing things together. And he absolutely falls in love with her. But, so, there’s all this dirt that’s coming out in the newspapers and they don’t know how it’s happening. But the scene…it starts very funny, but, again, it’s that heart, it’s balancing humor and heart that Frank Capra did so well, the scene in which he finds out the woman he’s fallen in love with is actually the one who’s doing all the dirt is one of the most emotional scenes in the film. And it’s so underplayed. So beautifully underplayed. He gets behind this column but you know he’s crying. And he can’t bear anyone to see him. It’s so incredibly moving and touching."

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