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The Carpetbaggers. The saga of a ruthless tycoon turned Hollywood mogul and the people who cross his life. George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Bob Cummings, Alan Ladd, Elizabeth Ashley. Jennie: Martha ...
George Peppard sketches a character without ever inhabit him. It's all effect. Carroll Baker, the brilliant Baby Doll, surrenders to the marketing demands and she revisits her aggressively sexual creature with more sparkle but less depth. Alan Ladd is the one that touches personal buttons and he is wonderful.
May 19, 2014 · Lurid melodrama based on the best-selling novel by Harold Robbins. Set in the aviation industry and Hollywood in the 1930s, the film stars George Peppard as ...
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Oct 31, 2020 · Fast Facts: Carpetbagger. Political term arose during Reconstruction and became widespread. Term was originally a very bitter insult leveled at northerners who ventured into the defeated South. Some people called carpetbaggers had noble motives, but were opposed by white supremacist figures in the South.
Mar 3, 2015 · Although the exact origins of scalawag are unknown, it was in use in the United States before the Civil War as a term for both a farm animal of little value and a ne’er-do-well individual. Today ...
Carpetbaggers were least visible in Texas. Republicans were in power from 1867 to January 1874. Only one state official and one justice of the state supreme court was a carpetbagger. About 13 to 21 percent of district court judges were carpetbaggers, along with about 10 percent of the delegates who wrote the "radical" constitution of 1869.
Mar 14, 2016 · Racism. Alexander White, a white congressman from Alabama, describes the role that “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” played in Reconstruction politics. These white republicans are known by the contemptuous appellation of carpet-bagger and scalawag . . . [T]hey are a northern growth, and unless going South expatriates them, they are still ...
