Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ghost Goes West (London Films). Rene Clair's first film in English, made at Alexander Korda's London studio from a screen play by Robert Sherwood, is a satiric fantasy notable for the qualities of grace, charm and imaginative wit that have long distinguished its director's work in French. Produced by a Hungarian, written by an American, directed by a Frenchman, and acted by an English-speaking cast, it has the homogeneity of style, the smooth polish often conspicuously lacking in its Hollywood counterparts. Its most serious fault is an occasional lethargy of pace, which...
...fair, blue-eyed Kansan, Editor Shively went to the University of Nebraska and to Columbia, is exceedingly modest and possessed of considerable charm. He writes with a cynical gusto that sometimes startles the Sun's sedate readers, occasionally breaks from earnest interpretation into verse such as this, which was run under a subhead...
Like those earlier Columbia hits, It Happened One Night, Broadway Bill, Love Me Forever, If You Could Only Cook has a quality most easily assessed as charm, which definitely compensates for such minor shortcomings as its title, borrowed from an antique improper story and explainable only as one more evidence of the pitiful innocence of the Hays organization. Good shot: Herbert Marshall showing Jean Arthur his design for a roadster which Chrysler Corp. would do (well to examine closely...
...finished at Farmington, she would probably have turned out to be one of those rare girls who for two or three seasons reign supreme at all the best college proms in the East, not because of good looks or a reputation for cuddlesomeness but because of unmistakable social charm...
...kind of reincarnation of the works of Gene Stratton Porter, with Rose O'Neill and Fannie Hurst thrown in, A Stone Came Rolling is a strange mixture of unabashed sentiment and social indignation. When Britt moved down into North Carolina's Piedmont to farm, his easygoing charm, church-going habits and knowledgeable affection for the soil would soon have admitted him to honorable citizenship. But his wife Ishma's goings-on set tongues wagging, heads shaking. A beauty, intelligent and subversive, she set the neighboring town of Dunmow on its ear, was sure to be found...