Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...
...quite as good as he has been, but still highly amusing. His lines show a little heavy-handed brushing over, but his voice and ingratiating manner are unchanged and score their points with usual effect. The rest of the matter is connected with the mating of Bing Crosby and Joan Bennet--a long and difficult process featured by several good ballads and much insipidity--both registered by Mr. Crosby--and the customary blond Bennet beauty...
Traveling Saleslady (Warner) briskly relates the. adventures, commercial and romantic, of a young woman (Joan Blondell) who, to spite her father for not giving her a job in his tooth paste company, . goes on the road for his rival selling dentifrice with liquor flavors. Complicated principally by the necessity for outwitting her father's star salesman (William Gargan) while she falls in love with him, Angela Twitchell's career reaches its peak when, at a Chicago drug convention, she sees to it that her rival and fiance arrives late in a plane whose pilot she has hired...
Hugh Herbert, William Gargan, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, and Bert Roach make the feature picture really funny. It's all about a tooth paste war which can be an interesting war with Joan Blondell and William Gargan cutting each other's throats. Hugh Robert continues his excellent screen career as an inventor. This time he makes "Cocktall Toothpaste," an ides which has an insidious resemblance to Maurice Chevalier's liquorized chewing gum in "The Big Pond." The ides theft can be condoned, however by the magnificence of Mr. Herbert's acting...
Best shot: nude Daughter Joan Hannah lying on her back, scratching her left ankle with both hands...