Word: jerker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tear-jerker,' " continued Doyle, "is a paragraph about 'Marty,' who had difficulties in school, found Latin and algebra 'dull,' quit school . . . 'drifted from one dead-end job to another,' fell in with evil companions, and finally used a gun on a druggist during a holdup. As he awaited sentence, one of his former teachers reflected: 'I was a big help to that boy. I taught him Tennyson and compound verbs...
Little Women. A lushly romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's genteel tear-jerker ; with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Leigh (TIME, March...
...Tear-Jerker. Ophelia is not an easy role, nor is it any too clearly written. Most actresses who try it (besides being old enough to spank Polonius) are likely to play the sane scenes like mad scenes and the mad scenes like a little-theater production of Ring Lardner's Clemo Uti, or the Water Lilies...
...Each His Own. Olivia de Havilland suffers & suffers as an unwed mother in an expertly made, artfully played tear-jerker (TIME, June...
...Each His Own. Olivia de Havilland suffers & suffers as an unwed mother in an expertly made, artfully played tear-jerker (TIME, June...