Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday Punch," the other feature, does little to relieve the letdown of the first film. It's the success story of a house full of would-be Gene Tunneys and Billy Conns, who are spurred on by the charm of comely Jean Rogers, an unconvincing gold digger and torch singer. William Lundigan and Dan Dailey, Jr., work their way up together through the YMCA leagues into big time and finally battle it out, in the championship bout, for Rogers. Lundigan is KO'd, but gets the gal, who has in the meantime changed her ways. Even ring fans will find...
...told story of two young people (Katharine Hepburn and Elliot Nugent) who marry for companionship, in due time lift the embargo on sex and wind up madly in love, it is chiefly a field day for Katharine Hepburn and her dressmaker. Actress Hepburn makes the most of her coltish charm. Playwright Barry contributes some witty wisecracks, but not much else...
Jackie Cooper, Max Baer and others give these parts the earnest locker-room charm which is one of the best things about action pictures. In this heavily masculine maritime setting Cinemactress Wyatt is as out of place as a ladies' first-aid drill on Henderson Field...
...accuracy of my information, I believe, as far as it goes, because I carry a trumpet of remarkable fidelity; an instrument moreover, which seems to exert some winning power, by which I gain more in tete-a-tete than is given to people who hear general conversation. Probably its charm consists in the new feeling of ease and privacy in conversing with a deaf person...
...Angeles dailies belatedly awoke. Now Hearst's papers are beckoning to war workers with a "Miss Victory" contest. His Los Angeles Examiner hired the Aircraft Times's popular charm expert, Eleanore King, to write a syndicated women's page feature...