Word: jerker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyrics by Stella Unger are similarly undistinguished. (A representative sample went something like, "I'll fly from the blue horizon/ to the isle of I-love-you.") Miss Unger also co-authored the book, together with Victor Wolfson, basing it on a memorable old tear-jerker of a play which was later made into a movie. The present rehashing of the story about a World War I affair between a chanteuse of doubtful reputation and a Parisian sewer-cleaner has lost most of the pathetic appeal of the original. Instead, the authors introduce a trio of prostitutes for comedy relief...
Maureen O'Hara's performance is generally creditable, except for an over-long but traditional tear jerker sequence in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Miss O'Hara mars her efforts by relying on the same facial expressions she used when her lover left her in a previous movie, and her father's boat sank in the one before that...
...females aged 2 to 90 (little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe was 13. Heloi'se was 18 when she fell in love with Abelard. Tristram...
...Rather Die Young (Gisele MacKenzie; Capitol). A hillbilly tear-jerker which darkly affirms the futility of life without love. MacKenzie, in her clear, bold voice, makes a good case for her side. A candidate for success with beer-parlor jukeboxes and losing lovers...
...Clown gives TV Comic Skelton an opportunity to perform one of his specialties: drunk and pratfall routines. But the picture is mostly an unblushing jerker of glycerin tears...