Word: debonaire
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...Thus debonair, voluble Grover Whalen, Manhattan's perennial greeter and president of the Fair, last year sold New York...
Companion films are "Damsel In Distress," a P. G. Wodehouse offering, and "Spy Ring." The first stars Fred Astaire and the silly pair, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Astaire is as debonair as ever and his dancing clover. The picture ranks as first rate entertainment if you don't mind the silly...
...plot is thoroughly inane. It has to do with the joys and terrors of a debonair young man who enters unwittingly into bigamy and continues in it because he can't decide how to get out. The first of the two acts sees him oscillating between Paris and London, the one the home of his first wife, whom be thought drowned, the other the home of his second. There is a good deal of horseplay connected with an attempt to keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little...
...figmentary episode in the life of 18th Century Play Actor David Garrick fits the Hollywood gag into the elaborate frame of Georgian humor. Garrick, who played Macbeth in the uniform of a Hanoverian general, might have enjoyed this modernization. He probably would have chuckled at his 1937 impersonator, debonair, English Brian Aherne, stealing scenes from noted Scene-Stealer Edward Everett Horton, but would certainly have advised some rewriting in the interest of pace...
About three years ago, Hollywood, always on the lookout for new and interesting personalities, began to take note of one who called himself John Montague. Handsome, debonair and genial, Montague would have been a welcome addition to Hollywood for his social talents alone. He had other ones as well. He was so modest that, in a community where a private telephone number is considered the ultimate in self-effacement, he not only demurely refused to reveal the source of his apparently lavish income but firmly refused to have his picture taken, politely smashing the cameras of photographers who tried...