Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to satirize the cinema theme of regeneration. But Director Mark Sandrich and several up-&-coming young actors have an attractively lighthearted time with the heavyhanded script. As Aggie the regenerator Wynne Gibson is a slum beauty weary of the hands of men but wearily willing to go to bed for a night's lodging. Beetle-browed young William Gargan plays Red Branahan, the alley tough who could make a dishonest living if he could ever bring himself to run away from the police. After he has gone to jail for putting two good cops in the hospital...
...most unromantic procedure. Like fishing or travel, the idea is more exciting than the act. Or so finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies...
...mother for 51 years, and I thought he was the greatest thing I ever saw when I first laid eyes on him. He has always been great to me. The NRA has made a new person of me. I thought I was an old grandmother, lying on the bed waiting to die. . . . An other thing I want to tell you mothers: if you are not public speakers you'd better start taking lessons now. for you never know what some of these sons and daughters will do to make you famous." In behalf of one Ben M. Jones, film...
...loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will be Mrs. Fane's Baby Is Stolen, specially written for him by George Washington's debunker, Rupert Hughes. Bombshell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) has a mop of platinum blonde hair, a four-post bed in a lacquer white bedroom, a fat contract with Monarch Pictures. She has a thieving secretary, a vulgar, fatuous father, a brother so stupid that it is impossible to tell when he is drunk and three miraculously fluffy old English sheepdogs. Bombshell exhibits a few significant incidents in Lola Burns...
...like traveling over the sea with one engine. One hears all sorts of knocks and splutters, but . . . the engine and plane behaved perfectly. On the Persian Gulf I went to pieces and had to put in a day in bed. At one stage over the Timor...