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...that was caustic, suspicious and envious in the French character welled up. People hated the ubiquitous black marketeers, sneered at their nouveau riche manners. They railed against the Government. The gay, graceful days of Gallic joie de vivre seemed a thing of the past. A kind of national dissatisfaction gripped the French: thousands were talking of leaving for some happier land, and many actually applied for visas. In their physical misery and moral confusion Frenchmen no longer spoke of "la belle France"; now it was "pauvre France...
...been sick near Nice; he had painted lying in bed. In 1943 his wife and daughter were tortured by the Gestapo on suspicion (justifiable) of helping the underground, but were finally freed. Matisse's health is still delicate, but he has seldom painted with more youthful boldness and joie de vivre...
...whole says anything, it is simply that some of the United Nations have a richer artistic heritage than others. In general, the exhibits are skimpy and scarcely more representative of the various national cultures than those which the delegates might have encountered in the proposed international maison de joie...
...instead of in a cheap London lodging-house. Tall, bland, humorous-eyed Ian Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...
...shifted from glamor (Robert Taylor) to talent (Fred Astaire). With George Murphy and Eleanor Powell (survivor of the two previous Melodies), Astaire taps his way through a half-dozen nimble numbers, including Begin the Beguine, some more recent, less inspired Cole Porter tunes. Frank Morgan chases ungrateful files de joie, who try to make off with the ermine wrap he lends them (for the evening). An uncredited comedienne (Charlotte Arren) squawks Arditi's Il Bacio as it has never been squawked before. But the best part of Broadway Melody of 1940, as of any other Astaire picture is Fred...