Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays...
...Happened One Night (Columbia) contains the material of many a recent picture: the brash, whiskey-drinking newshawk (Clark Gable); the girl (Claudette Colbert) whose father thinks she has been kidnapped; the Florida-New York bus on which they are riding North together-the girl to join her recently-acquired socialite husband of whom her father disapproves, the reporter to get the story of her escapade...
...Detectives from the Manhattan Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book, the picture has a plot-about a brash detective named Butch Saunders (Pat O'Brien) who falls in love with a girl (Bette Davis) who comes in to ask about a missing husband. Presently Butch Saunders learns the Chicago Police Department wants the girl for murder; then that the man she is looking for is not really...
...unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count and the rich, disapproving aunt. Weighed down with stock characters, a stale plot and mechanical lines, Come Easy made its mild zoo of feckless people easily believable. Director Miele kept bouncing her characters into spontaneity, accented their brash selfishness, their reluctant and shamefaced fondness for one another. Best performances: David Morris as the sulky and likeable son; Helen Lowell making of the harried mother a singularly gracious and human characterization...
...first, An American Tragedy, understandably vexed Author Dreiser. This one, equally understandably, has his approval. Without the patient wisdom of the novel, slurring some of the tragic ambiguities which Dreiser so painstakingly explored, it contains much of the meat of the book, makes its gently sinful heroine and her brash, uncertain lover characters who are affectingly, if somewhat too forlornly, real...