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Centennial Summer

film by Preminger [1946]

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In Otto Preminger: Laura and costume dramas
Centennial Summer (1946) was a bland if colourful musical set at the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, with Crain, Darnell, and Cornel Wilde. In Forever Amber (1947) Darnell portrayed an ambitious 17th-century woman who overcomes her humble beginnings through a series of affairs. Because of the…
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role of Wilde

In Cornel Wilde
…Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), Centennial Summer (1946), Forever Amber (1947), Road House (1948), Shockproof (1949), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), and The Fifth Musketeer (1979). He also starred in and directed a series of action films, notably The Naked Prey (1966), Beach Red (1967), and Shark’s Treasure
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