Sentence examples for Ameche from inspiring English sources
An excellent blocker and a powerful runner, Ameche was given the nickname "The Horse" for the way he worked on the practice field.
During his professional career Ameche rushed for 4,045 yards in 964 carries for a 4.2-yard-per-carry average and scored 44 touchdowns.
Ameche, who set a national record (since broken) by rushing for 3,212 yards while playing at the University of Wisconsin, won the 1954 Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding player in college football.
The following year he made Fifty Roads to Town, a screwball comedy featuring Don Ameche and Ann Sothern as snowbound companions, and You Can't Have Everything, a popular romantic comedy about a playwright (Alice Faye) and producer (Ameche) who fall in love, despite the efforts of his girlfriend (Gypsy Rose Lee) to keep them apart.
Set during Prohibition, Greenwich Village (1944) offered Ameche as a classical composer whose music is stolen by a nightclub owner (William Bendix) for his latest show.
Of the rest of the cast, the best, of course, are the peerless Denholm Elliott as the wise butler ("Eggnog?") and Don Ameche, so delightfully nasty as Mortimer Duke (a million miles from what that charming Ameche was reportedly truly like).
King next directed the musical Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), featuring Power, Ameche, Faye, and Ethel Merman, with songs by Irving Berlin.
The Feminine Touch (1941) was a passable marital farce, with Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, and Kay Francis all strong in their somewhat underwritten roles.
The low-budget Nancy Steele Is Missing! centres on an antiwar activist (Victor McLaglen) who kidnaps the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon (Walter Connolly) and comes to regard her as his own, while Love Under Fire starred Loretta Young as a woman accused of being a jewel thief and Don Ameche as the Scotland Yard inspector who tracks her to Spain and falls in love with her.
American singer and actress who, acted in some 30 motion pictures and, with Don Ameche, starred as the combative wife, Blanche, in the 1940s radio series The Bickersons.
One of the highest-paid film stars of the 1930s and '40s, Colbert continued to demonstrate her expert comic timing in such sophisticated comedies as The Gilded Lily (1935; with Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland), Midnight (1939; with Don Ameche and John Barrymore), and The Palm Beach Story (1942; with Joel McCrea).
