Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends for repartee, whose favorite shaft is "Don't be an airedale...
...movie and emit unrestrained guffaws for an hour and a half. "The Women in His Life" gives you this opportunity. And you can thank that superb actor Otto Kruger, who was considered a shot in the legitimate theatre. He bounds boisterously about the sets as though he were a drunken arthropod. His eyes roll diabolically, his cheeks puff, his ears crackle when he is aroused. What an actor...
Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
...Lawyer Barringer goes to Miami, frequents greyhound races. Kruger acts as well as Barrymore but The Women in His Life lacks the cleverness and impact of Counsellor at Law. Good sound: Barringer's voice, hoarse with pneumonia and emotion, when he wakes up in a hospital after a drunken visit to the grave of his onetime wife...
...example." His "hero," one Henderson, is a wraithlike Manhattan Everyman who appears only by snatches and never long enough to establish his identity. He is shown seeing his wife off to Europe, bringing another man's wife to the narrator's house in the country, making a drunken speech at a Manhattan party. His story has three endings. The reader is left with the impression that any or all of them may be true, and that it hardly matters. What does matter is the way Author Coates handles his kaleidoscopic but cunningly patterned "narrative." Each of the book...