Word: juliet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's Always Juliet. John Van Druten (Young Woodley) tells the tale of an English girl (Edna Best) and a young American (Herbert Marshall) who fall head-over-heels in love with each other at first sight. They have been acquainted only two days when he is called back to Manhattan to look after his architectural business. He offers marriage, and for the first time they sit down soberly and try to find out about each other. He has been wed before, divorced, has a child in Colorado. These revelations suddenly turn a carefree romance into a very serious...
...seen in this country in Melo. Actor Marshall, her husband, was the wise and witty scientist, last year, in Philip Barry's Tomorrow & Tomorrow. Great Britain need not envy the U. S. its Lunts so long as the ingratiating Marshalls carry on. Third of There's Always Juliet's cast of four is May Whitty, a Dame of the British Empire. Impersonating a sort of female super-butler, she has found an infinite and amazing number of ways of saying her chief line which is "Yes, Miss...
Since it is British, amusing and concerned with a love affair, There's Always Juliet will inevitably be compared with uproarious Private Lives. Less noisy than Noel Coward's play, There's Always Juliet should not suffer by the comparison...
...actors the opportunity of dressing up in oldtimey costumes and smacking their lips over some colored water which is supposed to be bourbon and ale. It relates the adventures of a troupe of mummers who barnstorm the U. S. circa 1811. Big scene occurs when they give Romeo and Juliet in Washington, D. C. before President James Madison. Here the reunited lovers score a triumph not repeated by Miss Gulliver Travels...
...enemy, a young man who has learned to be an architect. They marry. Furious, the girl's father (Leo Carrillo) threatens to kill his son-in-law, is killed himself by his aged mother. Critics wondered whether Hamlet would not make a better gangster plot than Romeo Or Juliet. The Age For Love (United Artists-Howard Hughes). Howard Hughes let it be known that he was seeking a suitable story for Billie Dove and then devoted a full year to selecting one. The Age for Love, adapted by Ernest Pascal from his own novel, does not seem worth...