Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devotion is more literate than the run of screen plays; unfortunately, it is also more literary. Charlotte, represented as a cute little turkey, is the most fictional creature in the film; she also happens to be the most lively and convincing character. Branwell, theatrical as he is, does have his moments of authentic, bitter agony. Odette Myrtil has very little to do as a Brussels schoolmistress, but she does it so well that for a little while the whole film looks intelligent. Such intelligence is the measure of the good movie Devotion might have been. It measures also the general...
...experience of commanders in the European Theater was a guide for MacArthur's advisers. G.I.s might not want to fraternize with Japanese men, but it was a foregone conclusion that they would find Jap children cute; as for Japanese women, they have appealed strongly to most westerners who have lived in the country. When doughfeet crossed the Rhine, they went from countries where they had enjoyed the attentions of Allied women; many of those crossing the wharves of Yokosuka would be going from miserable, womanless mid-Pacific "rocks...
...Ayars' conversations with Kenilworth, Ill, from E entry (with or without the aid of a telephone) are becoming suspiciously more frequent and lengthy; but they always end in the same sad refrain, "John, bring up the box of quarters." The John referred to here is none other than that "cute boy" of the Boston night spots, John...
...Librettist Hammerstein has not given Carousel the full flavor of Molnar, at least he has given it all the interest of a true play. His script is always simple, sometimes touching, never flashy, only here & there a little cute. And Composer Rodgers has swathed it in one of his warmest and most velvety scores. More than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This...
...table. By the time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits to Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva PioUs. very cute in her screen debut), to Jack Benny, and to a gay-nineties cafe where Allen joins in expensive quartetting with Don Ameche, Rudy Vallee, and Victor Moore...