Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department store office that gets cut of hand as soon as she leaves. But her suppressed desire is to marry her boss, the aristocratic Richard Barclay (melvyn Douglas), who is as efficient as she and even more mechanical. In this she succeeds, clearing up a nice domestic mess (spoiled child, neurotic sister, filching servants, and all) on the side, only to find that she is a wife in name only. Julia's efforts to shake her husband out of his stodgy absorption in business finally succeed in a grand drunk at the expense of the butler's supply of Scotch...
Apparently three things, not two, a inevitable in the modern world--the third being child actresses. If you dislike child actresses who dance, sing, and goo as much as we do, you will consider Janc Withers another candidate for Public Enemy Number one. If you don't you may like. "This is the Life." Lots or people did, specially the people just behind...
...high-heeled shoes she had given her Ma. She flailed out with one of them. Pappy fell back. Edith, half-naked from the fight, caught up a covering, ran out of the house. She could hear Pappy moaning: "Jesus, Jesus, why can't a man whip his own child?" He was soon dead from the beating Edith gave...
...There is no merit in the fact that I forgive this girl. How could a Christian do otherwise? Forgiveness is as natural as the sunrise, or the smile of a little child...
...Vance for sheer orneriness. He was a psychopathic drunkard called Marsden (Earle Larimore). He did not keep mice in his bedroom but he killed bugs when a boy. He, too, terrified the inhabitants of a gloomy Manhattan mansion. Marsden had been abused by an equally liquorish father when a child, which accounted for the fiendish campaign he put on to terrify his wife (Barbara Robbins) into giving him a son of his own to torture. Since Marsden makes no effort to temper his dangerous lunacy to the other five members of an excellent cast, they all have good reasons...