Word: lil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year's campaign is the support William Randolph Hearst is giving Governor Roosevelt in the form of cartoon criticism of President Hoover. Four years ago Publisher Hearst was on the other side of the political fence and his battery of cartoonists flayed the Democracy as a bejeweled "Diamond Lil" escorted by John Jacob Raskob. Now Mr. Hearst has a Democratic nominee for President of his own choosing and his guns are reversed upon the White House...
...Headed Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is adapted from Katherine Brush's best seller. The picture is a quick, caustic biography of an alert, successful strumpet. From her stenographer's desk in the Legendre Coal Company, Lil (Jean Harlow) quickly finds her way into the lap of Bill Legendre (Chester Morris), from there to the Legendre living room where Mrs. Legendre discovers her. Presently, there occurs a scene in a roadhouse telephone-booth which contains both Bill & Lil. Lil says: "You can't get along without me," and proves she is right by marrying Bill when his first...
Before much longer Lil loses interest in Legendre. She takes up with her chauffeur and a visiting socialite named Gaerste. When she follows Gaerste to Manhattan, Bill follows also to tell Gaerste about the chauffeur. Lil chases her husband home, shoots him, leaves him being nursed by the first Mrs. Legendre. When Legendre, remarried to his first wife, is traveling with her in Europe, they catch one more glimpse of Lil. Gay and more pleased with herself than she should be, she has an Hispano-Suiza, a racehorse, a Marquis, in addition to her chauffeur, Albert...
...type, noteworthy for its formality, charm, wit and innocence. It accents spectacle and pace, largely ignores plot implications. Conrad Veidt, an expert in menace parts who resembles Alfred Lunt, lets his face alone in this picture and is as cheerful a villain as he can be a gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against an illuminated glass screen; legs...
Born Lilith Witt, in Madiun, Java. Lil Dagover was educated, by European schools and tutors, out of her original ambition to marry a pastry cook. One of Germany's four most celebrated cinemactresses, she is 5 ft. 6 in., 103 lb., single...