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Word: dialogists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sister (Fox) had a good director, Alfred Santell (Daddy Long Legs); a brilliant dialogist, Edwin Burke (Bad Girl) ; two able principals, Linda Watkins, recruit from the Manhattan stage who caused a rumpus among Hollywood press-agents when she failed to be elected a "Wampas Baby Star of 1931," and James Dunn, who gave a fine performance in Bad Girl. All of which makes it disappointing that Sob Sister emerges as a routine, though fairly lively, drama dedicated to the stale proposition that newshawks are animated by semi-religious loyalty to their employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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