Word: gooey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gooey molasses of the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy team Dorothy Parker's script has added just enough vinegar to make "Sweethearts" a fairly enjoyable picture. The more cynical element in American movie audiences will be astonished to find that with good direction, a good script and a good supporting cast, the MacDonald - Eddy team can put on a fine show. Of course there're the customary shots of Nelson Eddy in a soldier's uniform and Jeanette MacDonald's exotic larynx, but underneath it all is a subdued smirk. At last Hollywood is beginning to realize that the Great American...
...recent letter from a young lady to one of us was concluded in what we thought was a most unusual and interesting manner. Quote: "Gooey Gobs of Purple Passion...
...against the yacht's bow, workmen knocked away the keel blocks, loosed the hawsers, and the Q. E. D. started down the ways. But before more than a few feet of her hull had entered the water, she came to a dead stop. Her stern was stuck in gooey Harlem mud, there to list forlornly until the next high tide floated her up, long past midnight...
...Patric Knowles), Idol Howard decently decides to disillusion her. The plan for such a procedure, his dresser (Eric Blore) agrees, is neatly outlined in one of his early triumphs. The Loving Triangle. But Olivia's adoration thrives on the boorish behavior prescribed by The Loving Triangle, grows to gooey consistency despite insults culled from Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew. When Alone in the City, promising a fate worse than death, fails to quench Idolater de Havilland's ardor, Actress Davis steps in with a sad story suggested by Without Benefit of Marriage, and Olivia returns...
...Britain again invades our shores with what may be another Ray Noble. Here is a slow tango that needs no Latin to feel its appeal; too bad it is marred by poor lyrics. The reverse, That's Life, I Guess*3/4 by Guy Lombardo is so soft and gooey that your needle ought to stick in the grooves...