Word: jerker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the millions of women it is aimed at, this film may interest students of the fantasy-life of U.S. womanhood in its less attractive aspects. It is a tear-jerker that is consistently slick and at moments almost believable...
...America" contest (TIME, Nov. 19), he was happy to get the $2,500, said it "comes in handy." By last week he was less happy about it. Pepsi-Cola apparently did not agree with the artists' jury which had given top honors to Burlin's Soda Jerker. Burlin's heavily satirical picture, which was as cluttered as a cosmetics counter and as messy-looking as a spilled sundae, had been omitted from Pepsi-Cola's New Year calendar, which contained reproductions of twelve other prizewinners. Pepsi-Cola has a stake in the dignity of the American...
...surprising $2,500 first prize winner* was a cluttered, satirical Soda Jerker by 5 9-year-old Manhattan-born modernist Paul Burlin. Pepsi-Cola, which reproduces prizewinners on a calendar, carefully omitted Soda Jerker. Burlin painted it nine years ago, before he ever heard of Pepsi-Cola, to show the drugstore "as an ironic, decorative melange. It's a hell of a place...
...straight from Author Isherwood's knowledge of Hollywood, Continental Europe and Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind of setup [as Vienna...
...letting the lovers see each other as they really aren't is inevitably misleading as well as mushy. But because the story leaves room for a lot of sincere sentiment and for even more acting-for-acting's sake, the story is also an extremely efficient tear-jerker which can get past the guards of even the wariest. With genteel taste and loving care, RKO has turned it into the best sentimental picture of the season...