Word: irenee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Showboat" in any form will always be welcomed by lovers of Jerome Kern music; it has been revived on the stage at least once, and this is the second screen adaptation. This present attempt has an immense advantage over the earlier one, since the music is played and sung as...
The acting on the whole is indifferent, with the exception of the performance of Charles Winninger, of Maxwell House Coffee fame, as Captain Andy Hawks. The role is not a particularly masterful one, but Winninger makes a sympathetic wise, and humorously appealing figure out of the old Showboat captain. Irene...
Helen Westley, with the magnificent eyes and nose of an owl, is Cap'n Andy's shrewish wife Parthy. Their daughter Magnolia, whose story is the sad old one of the girl married to a wastrel and abandoned, is Irene Dunne who, in black face and kinky wig...
British-born Director Whale was completely successful in imparting U. S. period atmosphere to the whirling rivertown parade with which Show Boat opens, to the turn-of-the-century sequence with which it might well have ended. What follows is an outline for some other Irene Dunne picture.
One count of the Department against the Treasure Hunt was that its numbered tickets were designed to look like Irish Sweepstakes tickets, thereby deceiving customers. Also, the Department solemnly averred, the Hunt was "nothing but a guessing contest." The winner of one contest, named Irene Varga, reported that "she had...