Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Cincinnati, Ohio, Hobo King Jeff Davis and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Reminisced King Jeff: "I was 16 and she was 15. . . . We wrote '18' on two slips of paper and put them in our shoes. Then when the marriage license clerk asked our age...
The Private Lives of Elizabeth andEssex (Warner Bros.) demonstrates the wear & tear on royal nerves when an aging, amorous Queen falls in love with a vain, personable young nobleman whose head she must cut off if she wants to keep her throne. It also demonstrates that Cinemactor Errol Flynn is...
To make this ambitious tragedy, producers took Maxwell Anderson's Broadway success, Elizabeth the Queen, had scripters tack on a new beginning. Knowing she acts nothing so well as a neurotic tantrum, they cast Bette Davis as the Queen, pulchritudinous Errol Flynn as Essex. Director Michael Curtiz was retained...
The main defect of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is that it is not tragic. Until the very end, Elizabeth's insistence that Essex can save his head merely by sending back her ring makes the drama seem as unreal as a schoolgirl's tiff, the...
A pervasive aroma of bitter hatred drifts through the whole picture, seeping deeper and deeper into the characters until, psychologically speaking, the sets are covered with the groaning bodies of the wounded. Perhaps the mental gore is overworked in spots, for climax follows climax with exhausting rapidity, putting considerable strain...