Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rose Hobart is a charming and intelligent actress, who is now on that treacherous middle ground between a successful début (as Julie in Liliom) and stardom. By no means awed at this status, Cinemactress Hobart was in much the same position a year ago when, after making her second talkie (A Lady Surrenders), she returned to the stage whence she had been coaxed by Carl Laemmle Jr., who admired her in Death Takes a Holiday. Her face, not conventionally beautiful, photographs better when turned toward the camera than in profile. The charm of her low voice perfectly survives...
...Parisian children playing hoops in the Pare Monceau (perhaps the loveliest of Albert R. Johnson's settings) it is evident that the Astaires have come a long way since leaving their native Omaha. Neb. Future revues will have a hard time equalling The Band Wagon's beauty, charm, imagination...
Daddy Long Legs (Fox). Ever since her first talkie Sunny Side Up Fox directors have been faced with the apparently impossible task of finding for Actress Janet Gaynor another role in which she would be able to give an equally profitable demonstration of her appealing sweetness and charm. This sentimental romance gives Actress Gaynor a chance to flutter about in an orphan asylum, endearing herself to the authorities by telling stories to the other orphans and feeding them icecream. A youthful philanthropist (Warner Baxter) who sees her in the performance of her good turns finds her behavior so cajoling that...
Open-air singing has an intangible charm not always accruing only to the singers themselves; the listeners, too, especially if the Muse be well represented by lier mortal enfulators, are pleasantly aware of an inner harmony with Nature, suggested, no doubt, by the vocal efforts of the performers...
June weather. Soon his proteges would be leaving the Cantabrigian shores for Home. A wave of sadness engulfed the Vagabond. He could see the shining faces of his school children on vacation. The tender charm of the parental hearth. And he was saddened by the reflection that he had no home other than Harvard. True it was a fine place but there was no denying a lack of homely atmosphere resplendent in the surroundings. No milk-bottles on the back-porch, for instance...