Word: denouements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
...class of dramaturgy which depends upon making much of trifles, Call It a Day is about the last possible refinement. Not only does nothing actually happen in the story but the fact that at its end the Hiltons are exactly where they were at its beginning constitutes its denouement. This is because, in the interim, each has been touched, lightly as by the warm March wind, by currents in life that invite or threaten change. Seventeen-year-old Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) has fallen in first love with the artist who is painting her portrait. Her brother Martin (Peter Willes...
...distasteful because, being in love with her, he dislikes . the role of fortune hunter. When Paul (Gregory Ratoff), a waiter at the Cafe Metropole, turns out to be a genuine Prince Panaieff, the situation becomes so involved that even Proprietor Victor has an anxious moment or two before the denouement in which Victor gets the money he needs to save his cafe, Laura Ridgeway gets her impostor...
...only from the shoulders up." Business Man ager Lytton sputtered that he had labored under the same misunderstanding. Snapped the Dean : "Drake does not intend to take any action." At week's end the New York World-Telegram, was able to make it known, in a fitting cinematic denouement to Heloise's adventures, that "it is only by chance that today the management of the Hollywood Restaurant . . . announced that Heloise Martin is coming back. There, as before, Miss Martin will toe-tap, perform in the chorus line and dance a number with a jumping rope. . . . Honest, we didn...
...dessicated sentiment is again overwhelmed by a rush of romantic events, with which he has had no experience of coping. The first scene sees him happily free; the middle of the second act sees him thoroughly enmeshed; the final scene sees him once again disengaged, through no dramatic denouement or artistic solution, but rather through the magical effects of Mr. Cohan's simple integrity, aided by the industry of some excessively loyal friend...