Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost always funny...
...China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious eye on all pictures starring Norma Shearer (Mrs. Irving Thalberg), will next see that actress performing as a well-behaved Victorian poetess in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with Fredric March and Charles Laughton. Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery will do what they can with Mutiny on the Bounty, a salty slice of sea history...
Death Takes a Holiday (Paramount). The hero (Fredric March) of this fantasy makes his first appearance as a garden variety of hobgoblin. A translucent shadow with bad manners and a bass voice, he calls on Duke Lambert de Catolica. announces that he is "the point of contact between life and immortality'' and suggests that he join the Duke's house party for a few days, in disguise. When he reappears, Death is wearing the monocle and white breeches of a minor Mediterranean prince. He amuses himself more than the Duke's other guests with macabre little...
...from William Faulkner and subjected to reverse English. In The Story of Temple Drake, Miriam Hopkins was a well-bred girl whose association with low characters led to unpleasant doings in a cornbin. In All of Me she is a patrician girl, selfishly in love with a young engineer (Fredric March). Her association with a petty crook (George Raft) and his mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island, swims across the East River, rescues his mistress from a reformatory...
...upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate an interesting character study of a War ace who shoots himself because he despises the business of killing human beings whom he has no reason to hate. When he gets a chance, Fredric March-a conscientious, intelligent rather than a brilliant actor-makes the growing emotional pressure of a man who finds himself in a quandary which he can do nothing to escape, seem immensely credible and vivid. The incident in the story by John Monk Saunders is as melodramatic as is customary...