Word: jerker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Renaissance and Romantic painters of Europe, to whom he is often compared, he got entirely from U.S. museums and reproductions. He worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon Delacroix and Tintoretto...
Ellen Drew, onetime soda jerker, took off her mink coat and mixed a soda for photographers in a Manhattan drugstore...
...Brooklyn dress cutter named Kominsky, 28-year-old Danny Kaye didn't get into show business until he'd been bounced as a soda-jerker for giving his friends free drinks, bounced as an insur ance clerk for making a $40,000 mistake on the books. Then he got a start on the Borscht Circuit in the Catskills, hopped off for Siam and Singapore in a vaudeville act, stayed in the small time until he met his wife. She contrived for him dizzy skits that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious...
...finally sells himself on the cause when confronted by one of the dozens of mushrooming John Doe Clubs. In a small town he hears the local soda jerker (Regis Toomey) tell how Love Thy Neighbor really works. In this scene a number of Hollywood types give Capra-Riskin some of the best character acting on film. Thereafter Doe makes a nationwide tour, falls in love with the girl writer, acquires such a nationwide reputation that his face appears on the cover of TIME...
...Meet Again (Warner) is a re-titling of a remake of One Way Passage, Warner's 1932 tear jerker, in which Kay Francis was an ailing beauty whose serious heart condition was aggravated by a first-glance passion for an escaped murderer (William Powell). This time the tragedy of hapless love is played out against the heartless magnificence of a trans-Pacific luxury liner every throb of whose propeller carries George Brent nearer death by hanging, Merle Oberon nearer death from angina pectoris. Cinemactress Oberon spends much of her allotted time philosophizing about eternity. When not listening, George Brent...