Curse of the Billy Goat Series), and 1945, the first year of the alleged Billy Goat curse, the Cubs won the National League pennant six times but failed to win the Series: in 1910, in 1918 (won by the Boston Red Sox who themselves would soon become victims of an alleged baseball curse and not win another Series for 86 years), in 1929, in 1932 (known for Babe Ruth's called shot at Wrigley Field), in 1935 (a re-match of the 1908 series against the Detroit Tigers, with the Tigers winning this time, their first Series triumph in five appearances dating back to the early 1900s),
The Curse of the Cat People "Cat People" (1942). James Agee, for instance, referred to the film's expression of "the poetry and danger of childhood". While "Variety" rated "The Curse of the Cat People" as "highly disappointing", "The New York Times'" Bosley Crowther called it "a rare departure from the ordinary run of horror films [which] emerges as an oddly touching study of the working of a sensitive child's mind". The film's reputation has grown since its initial release. Film historian William K. Everson found the same sense of beauty at work in "The Curse of the Cat People" and Jean Cocteau's "La Belle et la