Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes in this picture one of her occasional appearances on the screen and intensifies the impression that she is an exceptionally capable comedienne. Perhaps her grasp of emotional acting is less secure; there is so little of it in Beverly that it doesn't matter. Miss Davies plays a girl, in one of those romantic phantom kingdoms, who masquerades for her cousin the Prince...
Listen. Before Masterson has had time to buy a decent suit of clothes, the Piccadilly crowd jostles him next to the girl with the sauciest lips, the most bewitching eyes in all the world. And within 24 hours a fashionable stockbroker, seeking Masterson's vast account, invites him to dinner with the woman of those lips, those eyes...
...striving for the "bigger and better," it is something of a relief to discover a producer content to concentrate on the "better" at the expense of the "bigger." "Merry Merry" is of the intimate, clubby musical comedy genre made popular by its predecessors, "Little Jessie James" and "My Girl." The cast is so small that we all feel pretty well acquainted by the middle of the first act, and the atmosphere so friendly that we are sure it would be quite permissible for us to try our hand at the bassoon for a few minutes. The chorus can hardly...
...mind, at least, the best bit of acting is done by the unsung supers, the Tsarist officers, in a scene at an Inn. The princess, mistaken for a peasant girl has been given over, unknowingly, by her fiance, the prince, to the officers of his guard. DeMille has the officers seated around a table, snatching here and there at the girl's clothes, until, so well do the faces of the extras register, that one is led to believe, without seeing the princess, that she has very few clothes covering...
LIFE EMPTY, DISENCHANTED GIRL SCRAWLS BEFORE LEAP...