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Word: frappes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Together Again (Columbia) is a title which presumably refers to the fact that Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer once made a successful romance called Love Affair (1939), and are now at it once more. It can hardly refer to the present picture. Its story is a skittish, moderately ribald frappé about a small-town mayoress (Miss Dunne), her father-in-law (Charles Coburn), and a sculptor (Mr. Boyer) who remodels her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...plays last week, with Coward starring in both of them. If the audiences hoped for something with the drama of Coward's cinema tribute to the Royal Navy, In Which We Serve (TIME, Dec. 28), they were disappointed. Present Laughter is another of Coward's smooth, neatly frappéed cocktails, and This Happy Breed is a wholesome and slightly doughy shepherd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Mixture as Before | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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