Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joan Crawford's big-boned, over-dieted frame, breezing in & out of clothes, has the appeal of cold turkey. Her laborious refinement and sincerity are expertly relieved by the acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...
...vendettas are a merchandising tradition, were at it again as soon as their doors opened the morning after the Supreme Court's decision. In one day's skirmish cigarets at Macy's dropped from $1.14 per carton to 64? - of which 60? represented the Federal tax. Edna Ferber's Come and Get It sank from $2.50 per copy to $2.04. Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a $3 volume, opened at $2.82 the first day, closed at $2.64, plummeted to $1.83 before the weekend. Modern Library editions, usually retailed at 95? each...
...Edna-Ferberish servant-girl is torn between her love for her fiancé and the flattering dependence of her Jewish "family...
...Edna L. Bernstein would like to get $350 for a portrait of a petunia. George Constant, who painted zinnias and blue crabs, would take any reasonable offer...
Based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis, The Man Who Knew Too Much starts calmly enough in St. Moritz where Lawrence (Leslie Banks), his wife (Edna Best) and their small daughter (Nova Pilbeam) are performing winter sports. A fellow guest at their hotel is mysteriously shot. Dying, he begs Lawrence to find a code message in his room, deliver it to the British Foreign Office. Lawrence finds the message but before he can deliver it, the assassins have kidnapped his daughter, threatened to kill her if Lawrence carries out his mission...