Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither the hero of "The Mermaids Singing," a prominent playwright, nor the heroine, a sweet young thing, are likeable or believable people. The height of their implausibility comes, properly enough, at the second act climax. The girl runs off in the middle of the night and tells the married playwright she is in love with him, that anything he wishes to do is all right with her, and the sooner he does it, the better. The playwright, a man of morals, tells her to go home and wait while he makes up his mind. And it doesn't take...
...issue of TIME a statement was made that "Americans in Germany, as a group and as the representatives of a great power, were serving neither themselves nor America well." You people at home are the last ones that should talk about how we act. We came over here with good faith in you, the American people, and now instead of standing behind us you take a few moments off from your money-grabbing and squabbling not to help us but to find fault with our job. Instead of setting a good example for other nations to follow...
...Manhattan, Leon James and Fletcher Rivers, ex-partners in a vaudeville act called Moke & Poke, settled their dispute over rights to the title, went their separate ways with new partners -billed as Coke & Poke and Moke & Doke...
...almost any gauge, Notre Dame has worked up enough steam to press West Point's pants. But Army is a clear favorite with experts and public alike. The 1945 Cadets look and act just as unbeatable as 1944's unbeatables (who laid down a 59-0 barrage that was the worst beating in Notre Dame's history...
...mixture of tough talk and greeting-card sentiment, Fallen Angel includes a bogus clairvoyant (John Carradine), a church organist (Alice Faye) and a pair of underprivileged lovebirds (Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...