Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Blane's nostalgic melodies and Ben Blue's old-fashioned but highly polished comedy are the main assets of this remake. The others are Newcomer Dorothy Malone's winsome singing and the earnest performance of Dennis Morgan...
Live Today is unquestionably an earnest picture on a serious theme. Thanks largely to the charm and skill of Florence Eldridge (offscreen, Mrs. Fredric March), it is also at times quite poignant. But, considering how well Michael Gordon directed Another Part of the Forest, this is a surprisingly uneven job; notably, Gordon squeezes much less than he might out of the buildup to the "mercy killing" itself. The picture is also disappointing because it dodges and neglects so much. The pros & cons of euthanasia are presented in the round; a distinction is made between moral and legal guilt; and something...
...Bargain Basement. It was not an altogether deserved fate for Wolchok. A onetime grocery clerk, an earnest and unpolished man, he had been president of the department store union since its founding in New York in 1937. From the very beginning the union was ridden by Communists. Department store clerks -sometimes college-educated, generally low-paid, and frequently resentful-were susceptible to Communist colonizing. It was once said: "When the revolution comes it will start in a bargain basement...
...Broadway joint, specializing in Southern fries. It enjoyed a brief notoriety last December when it offered Margaret Truman $10,000 a week for a personal appearance and was politely refused. A short time later it dropped the "Chicken" and became the country's principal showcase for what its earnest admirers call "progressive" music...
Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman in a big, expensive, earnest retelling of a great story. Technicolor (TIME...