Word: garret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later he was back in Paris, empty of purse and broken in health. An old friend got him a job in a school where the food was scanty, his room an unheated garret. No longer free, he could no longer endure solitude. In the end he was horribly captured by a crazy old brothel madam who conceived for him a pure, discarnate love, and he died a clinically brutal death...
...Bittersweet" is full of lilting Noel Coward tunes and Jeanette MacDonald's red hair. The plot is concerned chiefly with the gay, carefree life of Old Vienna, with two people awfully, awfully, desperately in love, and genius starving in a garret. Nothing is notably different from any other picture of that type and about the best that can be said for it is an acceptable encore of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. And there will probably be people who will still be clapping for another...
Daybreak (French) is built on a dramatic foundation often tried and usually untrue: the device of discovering a character in a narrow corner, where he sits obligingly remembering his story for the camera. The story that passes before the blank eyes of François (Jean Gabin) in his garret room, as the police stand waiting for him on the street beneath, is strange and more worth remembering than most...
...Pursuing elusive young Françoise he meets worldly-wise Clara (Arletty). Over both women has been cast the dark and fascinating spell of Valentin (Jules Berry), an aging dog trainer who loves to tell lies and make simple people unhappy. When François climbs to his garret for the last time, Valentin has accomplished his masterpiece...
...Ayer, 35 leading commercial artists exhibited their sideline, non-advertising art. Their somewhat defiant aim: to disprove the patronizing theory that the commercial artist is "a renegade who rides in a Lincoln-Zephyr V-12," whereas an "artist" is a "pure spirit who munches crusts in a garret." Say they: "They're often one and the same person." The show's 40 items were the work of artists whose main problem is to entice consumers with dream women, seductive bathtub scenes, irresistible automobiles, travel-teasing landscapes, nostalgic farm scenes, etc. (for which their fees range from...