Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along with his $46,350 Nobel Prize; Harrison Smith, Yale 1907, tall, dignified publisher (Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc.); Dr. Charles Everett Rush, associate librarian in charge during the absence of Librarian Andrew Keogh; Gary Selden Rodman, an editor of Yale's Harkness Hoot, friend of Author Lewis. Dialog...
...revue. Painful results: Anne Merrick is pursued by a publisher, Steve Merrick makes expensive gestures toward a pretty neighbor. Pregnancy is presently established as a motive for reunion. What makes Up Pops the Devil as amusing in film as it was recently on the Manhattan stage is expert dialog by Arthur Kober and the treatment of important trivialities. Party Husband (First National). It is not hard to guess what turns a domestic comedy will take with a young couple who love each other but have made up their minds not to let marriage interfere with their separate individualities. The husband...
...death on the pavement is the end of his life in Paramount pictures. From now on he will work for Warner and there are indications in Ladies' Man that the deal had already been completed and that the producers had lost interest in Powell-indications in the dialog, construction and directing of a carelessness rare in Paramount pictures, usually so exacting in the matter of craftsmanship. Crucial line, by Kay Francis, after the Ladies' Man has been killed and the fancy dress ball has gone on without him: "They can't take that away from...
...causing complications. Except for the fact that it is a talkie, and for some faintly amusing scenes at the party, A Tailor Made Man would appear to have been produced in 1915 or previously. Haines's impudence is more offensive than engaging, his triumphs are too easy, the dialog is badly stilted. Most gratifying shot: the master tailor dumping a bucketful of water on Haines from a second-story window...
...partner's sister. In the end he is shot down by the lowly racketeers whom he has learned to scorn. In spite of an able cast that includes Marguerite Churchill and Sally Eilers, the whole thing is dull, chiefly because of an incoherence brought on by bad dialog and an attempt to cover too much action in program time. Typical shot: Spencer Tracy and his gang starting out in silk hats and morning suits to kidnap a bride...