Word: dialog
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second-rate picture with first-rate trimmings, the fundamental absurdity of Dangerous is partially disguised in the suave dialog written for it by Laird Doyle and by the presence of Bette Davis, currently Hollywood's No. 1 impersonator of femmes fatales, whose wicked eye-poppings outdo those with which she made her reputation in Of Human Bondage. Typical shot: Franchot Tone muttering, "It can't go on like this...
...because Tracy believes Miss Loy is involved in a robbery, and it is therefore his duty to treat her as a Federal operative must treat any subject under surveillance; because Miss Loy knows that Tracy, in spite of his pose as a fellow criminal, is really a sleuth. Dialog wavers back & forth between flippant, Grade A exchanges between Miss Loy and Tracy, and sad C-minus stretches where the crooks make remarks like, "We're hep to the whole layout...
First Lady. Jane Cowl as a Washington woman-behind-the-throne, with brisk dialog by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton. Jumbo. Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Durante, donkeys, deer and "dream women" in Billy Rose's new Hippodrome show. The Taming of the Shrew. Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne add new dimensions to a pleasant comedy by William Shakespeare. Winterset. Maxwrell Anderson's verse tragedy of a city's lower depths...
...most unusual questions" at stodgy public discussions. Maurois briefly recounts the major events of Shaw's career, does not point out the significance of his victories over one after another of his rivals. When William Archer agreed to collaborate with him on a play, Shaw wrote the dialog, then dispensed with Archer's part. When Wells, accusing the Fabian Society of aping Shaw and failing in its duties, offered a program for changing it. Shaw delivered a speech so vigorous that Wells "was left stricken on the field" and resigned from the Fabians...
...gags on his radio hour. Benny was a hit. His voice, grating on the stage, "took" on the air. Sponsored by General Foods, he worked up to his present eminence by an offhand amiability and the knack of weaving advertising matter into his act as part of the dialog...