Word: flashbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story revolves around the effort of French police to identify the body of a woman who had committed suicide. Flashback episodes of the lives of four women who were reported missing at the same time an opera star, a school mistress, a farmer's housekeeper, and a bargeman's wife-constitute the narrative...
...story, like a maddening nest of Chinese boxes, is finally fished out of a flashback, inside another flashback, inside still another flashback. The reason Laraine is such a thoroughly.horrible young woman: she suffered a disappointment about a gold locket when she was a little girl...
...phonograph record (Rudy Vallee's My Time Is Your Time) and a quaint old snapshot of something called a flagpole sitter. In heaven's name, mother (gasps the bobby-soxer), what was life like back in those funny, faraway times? Most of Margie is mother's flashback, Technicolor-and-music reminiscences...
...Seventh Veil (Sydney Box-Universal) is an English picture which sets out to resolve the romantic dilemmas of a lady concert pianist. It uses the relatively new medical technique of narcohypnosis as an excuse to use the old movie technique of the flashback. What is known in the trade as a "woman's picture," The Veil examines the frustrations of a basically good girl who is besieged by three far-from-perfect suitors. U.S. audiences may note that the psychiatric theme used in Hollywood's recent Spellbound has been more intelligently filmed by the British...
...lands Sagittarius right in the middle of the fifth house of Jupiter. With the stars and Teresa Wright--Isabel Drury's mother against him, the house goes up in smoke, and Cooper's spur of the moment marriage with Isabel, a Barnard girl, ends on the proverbial rocks. The flashback fades, and Morgan-Cooper banter lights up the scene to dispel the otherwise shady atmosphere of the proceedings. Cas, with a slightly overworked conscience, takes a powder to Chicago on general principles to look the situation over...