Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows how to use a herd of thundering cavalrymen and how to develop the character of a good man turned bad, and a touch of building-the-old-West spirit all rolled...
Margin for Error. Clare Boothe's lively anti-Nazi melodrama, spiced with satirical wisecracks (TIME...
...William K. Humphrey Juliet Crowder, Wellesley Robert T. Hurley Phebe Perry, Vassar Albert F. Hyde, II Alison Gilman, Winsor School Carl H. Imlay Barbara Cosgrovo, Simmons, Sidney C. Jackson Julie Ann Dolan, Simmons Eugene P. Johnson Barbara Sommes, Simmons Charles W. Joyce Jane Hill, Sarah Lawrence Summer R. Katze Clare Werther, Endicott Maxwell Kaufer Doroty Cohen, Wellesley George T. Kelton Lydia Vorillov, Radcliffe Caleb Kendall Phyllis Thompson, Belmont Robert B. Kent Jane Schultz, Palm Beach Samuel L. Kent Jean Ellen duPont, Wilmington, Del. Theodore S. Kenyon, Jr. Jean White, Wellesley Drue King, Jr. Hope Imes, Wellesley Henry P. King...
...love with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others (not so frequent) which reminds one of Clare Booth at her nastiest best. Spencer Tracy is definitely out of place. He is aphoristic, as usual, but he is convincingly so in a steaming jungle not in an expensive night club. Miss Lamarr is esentially decorative although her acting shows improvement. Veree Teasdale is the saving grace...
Other unsold successes: Clare Boothe's Margin For Error, William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, the bawdy musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady, which if filmed would have to be housebroken or probably go in one Hays Office door and out the other; the John Barrymore fandango, My Dear Children; and, despite many reported deals, The Philadelphia Story...