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Word: helene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) had to tell lies. She did not always gain by lying; she often lost, but she had to tell lies because her way of seeing things made them so fascinating, so endlessly fecund in rich if fanciful possibilities. Her husband, Kenneth (Fred MacMurray), was entirely different. He was the kind of lawyer who would volunteer to defend a truckman against the charge of stealing hams-but refuse when he found out his fee was to be paid from the sale of the hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

This is an odd beginning for a comedy-and comic True Confession is skillfully played and paced, keyed up to the pitch of the dizziest haywire skit. Yet what makes True Confession funnier than most haywire comedies is that as melodrama it could be just as effective. Neither liar Helen nor Kenneth, the man of principle, is caricatured, so their dilemma seems true and could be terrible; outside the hilarity nightmare is imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Helen, in her hour of need, thinks of a lifesaving lie-she killed the broker to protect her honor. Then Husband Kenneth can win fame defending her. After a trial scene which includes the most insane re-enactment of a murder ever photographed. Helen is acquitted, Kenneth's career begun. Now publishers compete for Helen's written fictions. Only one thought clouds Kenneth's bliss: Helen has killed a man. Suppose, she hints, she hadn't really killed him: just imagine, for the sake of argument, that she was lying. . . . But Kenneth is more desolated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Robert Riggs 2. Helen Jacobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Honors | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Gene Mako 8. Helen Pedersen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Honors | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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