Word: dual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there must be a Man of the Year once again, put me down for Adolf Hitler. What a noble service he is rendering the world by striking at the dual-headed monster of English greed and Russian Communism...
Spencer Tracy takes up the task of portraying the famous dual personality without the help of more than a few pounds of make-up, and relies upon mugging and histrionics to do the rest. His is the case of a man trying to take some of the duties of the divine into his own hands. As Jekyll and Hyde, he proves his point about the portions of good and evil in the human system, but pays the supreme sacrifice for his presumption. With more than his ordinary zeal for a part, perhaps too much. Tracy nevertheless does a thoroughly good...
Smilin' through her teeth, redhaired, green-eyed, pink-cheeked Jeanette Mac-Donald, now a matronly 34, plays the dual role of Moony can, a 20th-Century damozel who is shot by a jilted swain (Gene Raymond) at her wedding to Brian Aherne, and Kathleen, the 20th-century ward of the aged bridegroom, who bitterly resents his ward's falling in love with the American son (Mr. Raymond again) of the scoundrel who shot his bride...
...permit me to correct you; there was still another version, which as a small boy I saw in 1912 or 1913. The picture made such an impression on me, resulting in several nightmares, that I still have vivid recollections of it; the name of the actor who portrayed the dual role was King Baggot, who I believe in those days was quite a "big name" in movies...
...personality was dual. With undergraduates, who had grown to expect temperamental eccentricities, the irascible pedagogue he could be, but with advanced students in his graduate courses he was the urbane scholar, no pains too great to take, and ah, to the suppliant he could be sweet as Summer...