Word: dipsomania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Hackett, it brought back William Powell as smart Detective Nick Charles, Myrna Loy as Nora, his imperturbable wife, Asta (cranky and snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst. But the spontaneity seems a little forced, the pace, jokes and charm a little grimly predetermined...
Concentrating on Louise (Bette Davis) and Frank Medlin (Errol Flynn), the reporter she marries before she has known him a week, The Sisters shows their San Francisco menage exposed to the successive shocks of his dipsomania, jealousy and disappearance on a tramp steamer...
...Private Worlds, Mary White (Ann Harding) in this picture is baffled when her own life presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall) convinces her that what she mistakes for Love is merely spiritual chicken pox. This is the climax...
...Terry's appetite for whiskey. He cuts off pieces of the hawser and pawns them for liquor so that when Annie sets out to tow a schooner into port she is humiliated by finding that she has no rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie locks him up in the cabin while...
...whiskey. They leave their carnival and join a medicine show in which the strong man becomes so inflamed by the sight of Miss Chatterton's legs in silk tights that he goes mad and is removed to an asylum. Lilly Turner consoles herself for her husband's dipsomania and the sad tenor of her existence by having an affair with the strong man's more personable successor (George Brent). She is about to run away with him when there occurs the one moment in Lilly Turner that possesses an element of dramatic action. The lunatic strong...