Word: charms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until Director H. Bruce Humberstone discovered her and took her to Producer Zanuck for a screen test, green-eyed, red-haired Arleen Whelan was a Hollywood manicurist. A lithe, natural lass with Celtic charm and an unaccountable suggestion of a double chin, she was soon rumored to be David Selznick's choice for Scarlett O'Hara. But Zanuck had already signed her. In Kidnapped her voice lacks depth, except when she is singing a Scottish ballad with Maxine Sullivan flavor. She acts as if she were not quite at home in Scotland or Hollywood...
...unshakable logic of this plot has recommended it to producers: it appears, not once, but twice, on the local screen. In "Joy of Living" (Joie de Vivre) the girl is Irene Dunne, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is resented and married. The carefree abandon of this film, the charm of Miss Dunne, Jerome Kern's music, the able comedy of Jean Dixon, atone for the rest of the cast and make this a very fine farce...
...Samuel Calthrop, a Roxbury, Mass, clergyman who found charm in other things besides divine philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...
...long list of artists was made up of more big apple dancing by the torrid platinum blondes, and talks by Joe Cashman of the Boston American who spoke about the future of the Red Sox and the Bees, contrasted by Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck who did not charm the audience by relating his adventures with snakes and other wild beasts in the jungles he has conquered...
...every line, using strong lights and deep shadows and marked features. Detail work is avoided, except in the treatment of the head and of the books. Brushwork is done in the same manner, in crisp, bold planes. The result is a wise and kindly gentleman, painted with elegance and charm...