Word: dressed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical film, became a national story when College Humor appeared with its four-page spread of eight pictures on "A Day in the Life of a Co-Ed." Heloise was shown climbing out of her double-decker bed in the morning, showering behind a transparent curtain, snaking into a dress, taking notes in class, posed outside with a bow & arrow in a bathing suit, posed inside again "practicing a few dance steps," dancing at a Des Moines hotspot with "Bus" Bergmann, and, also with Friend Bergmann, in the "lingering reality of a good-night kiss...
...ambitious dress model who rises to the top through chance, Kay Francis plays the lead opposite Claude Rains in "Stolen Holiday", feature picture of a mediocre show at the University. Playing the part of Mademoiselle Nicole Picot, she is completely taken in by a crooked financier, Stefan Orloff, who gives her everything she wants, until she is owner of the greatest fashion shop in Paris and at the top of Paris society...
...Barre Lyndon; Gilbert Miller, producer) is that highly desirable addition to any theatre season, a smart, smooth, crook play. The fact that the crooks involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million-dollar fur robbery which...
...sister (who was visiting friends at the time of the murders) resented their stepmother, kept to themselves as much as possible in the front of the house. By Fall River standards of those days, Mr. Borden was a rich man. Two days before the inquest, Lizzie burned up a dress. Her testimony at the inquest-she was never put on the stand during her trial-was contradictory on some points, evasive on others. Nevertheless, since there was only circumstantial evidence against her, she was acquitted. The trial (1893) was a national sensation, even eclipsing the Chicago World's Fair...
...elements; write the story your own way but the plot doesn't really matter. All that does count is that Overman is sufficiently much of an actor to make one of those clever mysteries movies realistic for a change. Perhaps that is because the directors didn't dress him up ever so smartly or make him say such very smart things...