Word: alison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to an eminently shrewd performance by Bette Davis, the picture contains pleasant ones by Ian Hunter and Alison Skipworth, as a onetime Floradora girl, who makes Miriam her prot...
...Alison Skipworth and Roland Young supply the comic background for Crosby's impersonation of a waiter. The name of the picture incidentally is "Here Is My Heart" but it might be called any thing except "Romance in Manhattan" for that is the title of Francis Lederer's picture...
...June in January," "With Every Breath I Take") that make Here Is My Heart such agreeable entertainment. Aimed at intelligent audiences, written with wit, directed with a proper sense of style by Frank Tuttle, it has the immense advantage of having such performers as Roland Young, Alison Skipworth and Reginald Owen in subsidiary roles. As bedazzled, picayune Prince Nickolas, Young reveals, in urbane monosyllables, his scheme for crooked trading in used cars to replenish the empty royal treasury. When they learn that the hotel waiter has been seen stuffing bills into their wallets, the other members of the royal family...
...good clean fun on board ship in "The Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert...
...role of the debutante, is attractive but the contortions which she must undergo at her own party to express her emotional ailments would usually leave the stag line undiminished. Gene Raymond is the musician whose love given Mrs. Stanhope's little machine something worthwhile. The there is Alison Skipworth, who performs creditably as the social secretary dictator with the inevitable lists