Word: lightheartedness
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Plain Sister Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and lovely Sister Eileen (Janet Blair) leave Columbus, Ohio for a basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station...
Amid the carnage Cinemactors Bogart and Astor manage to mix lighthearted love and heavy-handed melodrama with some funny conversation.
Picture-minded Yank's first issue was breezy but less lighthearted than Stars & Stripes. Typical ingredients:
My Gal Sal (20th Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it...
"This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies...