Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has never been much doubt about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...
...husband died-she said of cancer-leaving a thriving lumberyard. She quickly ran the business into the ground, looked around for a new husband to support her. One M. Costadot. who was unfortunately a married man, struck her fancy. One evening, as they chatted pleasantly about a film they had just seen. Widow Becker brewed tea for Mme Costadot. She died...
...Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this time in the classic role of a belle of New Orleans. Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays it does not seem much better than a bore, and all the flounced dresses, veranda columns and old plantation dialogue in Hollywood-on which The Toy Wife appears...
...preliminary tests brought a belated discovery that NBC is broadcasting its pictures only northward of the Empire State Building. So Brooklynites were given admission cards to an A. T. C. demonstration in Manhattan. There 500 guests crowded into a small room to try to watch an hour show of film and live talent on a bright green screen, five inches square. Many strained their eyes so badly that they left the show seeing pink spots...
...unshakable logic of this plot has recommended it to producers: it appears, not once, but twice, on the local screen. In "Joy of Living" (Joie de Vivre) the girl is Irene Dunne, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is resented and married. The carefree abandon of this film, the charm of Miss Dunne, Jerome Kern's music, the able comedy of Jean Dixon, atone for the rest of the cast and make this a very fine farce...