Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gordon and Revel songs, amiable dialog by a trio of ace screen writers, adroit direction by William Seiter and effortless acting by a sophisticated cast give Stowaway a quality recent Temple pictures have lacked, of simple, unself-conscious charm. Good shot: Randall and valet, having failed to sing Shirley Temple to sleep, nodding when she croons Good Night, My Love...
Newt Holley (Walter Brennan) planned to serenade his son Ernie (Joel McCrea) and the latter's bride Pearl (Barbara Stanwyck) with St. Louis Blues on their wedding night. He felt the tune might be a kind of charm to bring him a grandbaby. Newt never got to play the tune that night because Ernie ran away after he had knocked a man into the river for trying to kiss the bride.' When Ernie finally came home again he quarreled so with Pearl that she went to New Orleans with an itinerant photographer (Walter Catlett). Following...
...wide sickle of Rio's bay, and up into the misty hills beyond, the bi-Presidential party rode 30 miles into the country to attend the first function of the day, luncheon at the home of Tycoon E. G. Fontes. There Franklin Roosevelt had his first opportunity to charm the denizens of high South American society, including Senora Vargas and her two daughters...
William Powell plays expertly the vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld...
Implicit in the writing, acting and direction of Make Way for a Lady, a conviction that the picture is completely charming helps to obliterate any trace of charm which it might otherwise have possessed. Most tedious shot: Actress Shirley's simper...