Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dolores Del Rio is definitely a beautiful lady. Pat O'Brien is said to have good points. Edward Everett Horton can be quite amusing. Busby Berkeley has been known to create clever choral monstrosities. With the above ingredients, tempered by a dash of Glenda Farrell, we have "Caliente" which aims to be a heady cinematic cocktail; it should be no shock to learn that like mice and men, movie magnates are also visited by the ganging agley of plans. In short: "Caliente" misses fire...
...woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and oddly spired landscape.* Forty years after Leonardo's death a painter-journalist named Giorgio Vasari told the world that that woman had been Madonna Lisa, third wife of a Neapolitan named Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo. Of Lisa little is known. Last week Dr. Raymond S. Stites, professor of art and esthetics at Antioch College, ended a twelve-year job of checking Vasari, announced that the woman was Isabella d'Este, wife of Francesco Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua. Of Isabella d'Este, "first...
...husband, to ask Cesare to excuse Leonardo. Until 1506 Leonardo worked in Florence, only no miles from Mantua. At any rate, sometime between 1499 and 1506, between his meeting with Isabella and his departure from Florence, Mona Lisa is supposed to have been painted. Was it of Lisa del Giocondo in Naples or of Isabella d'Este in Mantua...
...this piece is a complete, complacent lunacy which will at once endear it to all cinemaddicts who have given up hope of finding a new kind of musical. It is not really about anything and nothing happens-a practically perfect formula. The set-up is Edward Everett Horton, Dolores Del Rio and Pat O'Brien, behaving with notable insincerity among a lot of puzzling yellow stuff which O'Brien finds to be Mexican sunlight. There are two menaces. One is a blonde (Glenda Farrell) who wants to marry O'Brien. The other is a comment which...
...could not do much with Mexican dance effects that has not already been done and probably the most devastating thing to be said about the Warren and Dubin music is that there are times when it sounds as if it had been written by somebody else. Good scenes: Miss Del Rio saving O'Brien from drowning in the pool into which he dived to pull her out; the "Lady in Red" number; the anatomical direction of a lady's glance when she meets Horton, clad in an open bathrobe, on a stairway...