Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dialog for The Mind-Reader, written by the late Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord, is a good example of the reportorial comedy-melodrama school, but the brash antics of Allen Jenkins are the most amusing thing about the picture. He takes money from both his employers for keeping their doings secret from each other, gives a fellow chauffeur $5 for information which Chandra can resell...
...picture as The White Sister should have been entrusted for adaptation to Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart. It is not Stewart's writing which weakens the emotional quality of The White Sister. The picture's mood hovers between the realistic and the romantic; at times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna (Louise Closser Hale) giving her a brooch when she enters the convent...
...Pontiac Motor Car hour Engineer William Shearer is the juggler who balances the comical dialog of Stoopnagle & Budd with a big mixed chorus; makes wee Jeannie Lang, a whispering soprano, sound as effective as William O'Neal, a full-blown tenor...
...score, loaded with "rhythmic dialog" which was billed as a Rodgers-Hart invention, turns out to mean merely a superfluity of rhymes. Lewis Milestone's direction is graceful but undistinguished. Al Jolson's performance is notable for a great air of confidence, which is generally unjustified, and for the fact that he still wobbles his lower lip as though every other word in all his songs was Mammy...
Pardon My English (words & music by Ira & George Gershwin and Herbert Fields, Aarons & Freedley, producers). The impressive line-up of authors responsible for Pardon My English seems largely wasted on a script which falls short of big-time specifications in score, dialog and situation...