Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal surprise is Joan Blondell as an exotic lady who is backing shows to utilize publicity she got by shooting her husband. In gorgeous negligees she spends her time pursuing Randall, moping about her subconscious, and uttering lines like "Gentlemen, no X-rays. I'm not well enough for pictures...
...second part of his speech-and the most powerful in emotional content-is a really gorgeous exhortation. It is filled with quotable sentences. The next edition of Bartlett's book of quotations may have several lines from this Philadelphia speech. As for instance, This generation has a rendezvous with destiny or Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference...
...Gorgeous Hussy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Peggy O'Neale, Washington, D. C. innkeeper's daughter, whose second marriage, to President Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War John Eaton, caused an uproar in Washington society unrivaled until the appearance of Mrs. Dolly Gann in 1929. Peggy O'Neale's first marriage was to a Navy purser named John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton...
...Gorgeous Hussy starts out as if its sole purpose were to reveal to a cinema public already well posted on the subject the details of Actor Robert Taylor's profile seen from the right. When Actor Taylor, functioning as Lieutenant Timberlake, has been removed from the proceedings by heroic death in action, the picture gathers pace. The idealistic love of Peggy (Joan Crawford) for Senator John Randolph (Melvyn Douglas); her marriage to Eaton (Franchot Tone); and her single-minded devotion to President Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) form a pattern which balances in entertainment whatever it may lack in educational value...
...Hollywood so rarely utilizes the obvious and profitable field of U. S. history may be the squeaks of indignation that result whenever it does so. Last week in Nashville, Tenn., Miss Fannie Walton, great-grandniece of Rachel Jackson, and the Nashville Ladies Hermitage Association made strenuous protests because The Gorgeous Hussy showed Mrs. Jackson as a pipe-smoking crone. Said Miss Walton, "I think it's a sacrilege...