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...delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly. As is rare in an American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation, which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel, a French Alison Skipworth, is gruffly ingratiating as the Duchesse de Treville; Vanda Greville, without being obvious, is uproariously graceless as the English girl, and Jeanne Tissier, playing the lionized love-lecturer, creates a subtle balance between timidity and conceit. All the players live their parts, and are doubly humorous in being unconscious...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/26/1936 | See Source »

...then to "Catriona," finally sent it to the press with the latter title, though it is known today more by the original name than the other two. The first illustrated edition of "Treasure Island" is no less interesting than of "Kidnapped," which is dedicated to Stevenson's nurse: "To Alison Cunningham from her boy." Several volumes are inscribed with the name of the author's stepson, Lloyd Osborne, who was the publisher of several of Stevenson's works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By A. A. B. jr., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 2/15/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

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