Thelma and Lowell's Diary: July 27, 1943

She sees a movie alone; poet Ezra Pound, seven others, accused of treason

“It was raining and cloudy all day and so comfortable,” Thelma wrote. She and Lowell played pinochle before he left for work, and then she went up to the National Theatre and saw the film Reap the Wild Wind, starring John Wayne, Ray Milland, and Paulette Goddard. She embroidered at home, waiting up for Lowell, and they ate again before going to bed.

The movie poster for this adventure film produced by Cecil B. DeMille was accessed through Wikimedia Commons.

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