Word: contrivedness
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Sparing no expense, RKO has contrived to get this fancy swash buckled with enthusiasm and good taste.
But Director Vincente Minnelli's talents are so many-sided and generous that he turns even the most over-contrived romanticism into something memorable. He has brought the budding dramatic talents of his betrothed, Judy Garland, into unmistakable bloom. He has helped give Robert Walker an honest, touching dignity...
All that was certain to remain after 1,000 years was the all but incredible story of the demonic little man who rose through the grating of a gutter to make himself absolute master of-most of Europe and to change the history of the world more decisively than any...
Practically Yours (Paramount) is the story of a heroic flyer (Fred MacMurray) who outlives his suicide-dive at a Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave...
The love story is as complicated as radar and as contrived as a screen queen's eyelashes. Yet scene by scene, as played by the extremely personable Phillip Terry (third and present husband of Joan Crawford) and by subtly tough Audrey Long, it becomes about twice as real as...