Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormous gusto and skill by Actress Gladys George, famed for her Broadway success in Personal Appearance, rates with the noblest of them all. If intelligence counts, Carrie is better than Madelon Claudet, who sank to scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles, it is a slick, high-powered old-school tearjerker, guaranteed to please exhibitors by making their patrons miserable. Typical...
...Bazooka) Burns, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and Benny Goodman and his orchestra, all go their highly individualistic ways, with occasional amusing collisions. That crowd is bound to be good, and it's quite a thrill for the radio fan to see all those disembodied voices step into the flesh, if only two-dimensional and black-and-white. On the stage we have Dave Apollon and his 1937 revue, is just like any other revue. The ventriloquist is very good...
...square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
Columnist Raymond Clapper said: "The best provincial political drama of the year ... a drama of flesh and blue blood...
...Hollywood preview last week burst into applause. The applauders were not partisans of stout but of Mary Astor, whose first line they recognized even before the camera moved over to her. Throughout the picture they kept applauding frequently and as she was coming out of the theatre in the flesh with Screenwriter Marcus Goodrich and her mother, they mobbed her. cheered her. shouted "You're all right, Mary!", begged her for her autograph...