Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
Casting in "Sleep My Love" is unfortunate, with Miss Colbert in the role of a very young wife and Don Ameche as the ogre. But their performance considering physical handicaps are adequate. Robert Cummings is debonair as the passing hero, and gives a fair imitation of the snave prewar Robert Montgomery. George Colouris is his customarily minister self, and Hazel Brooks, oh well, she'll never learn...
...Debonair Louis St. Laurent rose in a half-empty House last week and casually answered Member Bentley by submitting an exchange of notes* in May 1945 (just after V-E day), when Canada and the U.S. agreed to extend the Hyde Park plan for close economic cooperation into the difficult years of reconversion. The bored House hummed with members' private chatter. St. Laurent's words were little noted...
...wife and Robert Cummings as the passing here. Though Miss Colbert is no longer the bathing beauty she was in Sign of the Cross, she does her best to convey an air of youthful innocence and terror. Her best is good enough. Cummings is reminiscent of the debonair pre-war Robert Montgomery, and a far cry from the usual neurotic hard-drinking males who presently haunt the screen. Don Amcche is adequate as the husband though he makes an unexpected "heavy." In fact the only weak spot is debut of Hazel Brooks. Fortunately her costumes make up for her cultural...
Producers have been eagerly batting her on the head since 1930, when she scored a personal hit in a flop called Debonair. After her first big London success, The Wind and the Rain (1933), she married a globe-trotting London Timesman, Peter Fleming, and began (as Coward overstates it) to "have children with monotonous regularity" (she has three...