Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three leading ladies in "Ladies in Love," Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, and Janet Gaynor all have their romantic experiences in the setting of Twentieth Century Budapest. Faced with an overwhelming galaxy of some of Hollywood's best talent, the audience is whisked with bewildering rapidity from one love story to the next. The difficulty in keeping the proper men connected with their respective females increases with each succeeding scene and the introduction of Simone Simon to further complicate the plot is the last straw...
...acute analysis of the ways and woes of a charming hostess who endeavors to entertain some dozen heterogeneous people at once, and wins by being vague. The next is a grim one: a diagnostic study of a diagnostic man. It shows what happens when a psychiatrist has a love affair. The third snaps itself abruptly to the vaudeville stage and gives us Noel asking his lovely, amazingly gifted partner, Gertrude Lawrence, "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that the audience is highly taxed to muster the corresponding versatility...
...boyhood because of his harelip and crippled speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided the one element needed to complete the Tallons' tragedy...
Suggesting little of its author's cosmopolitan experience and business success, The Tallons reaches its climax when Myrtle learns that she can capture Jim Tallon's attention by making fun of his brother's love for her. To buy relief from her mockery of Andrew, Jim is attentive to her, grows more entangled, eventually marries her. But as he watches her with his brother he begins to believe that they have both tricked him, becomes insanely jealous of a woman he does not love, plunges into wild dissipation, beats his wife until his confusions are ended when...
...ideas and a tyrannical foster-father; Brother Bill is a sneak thief who has acquired a great store of misinformation about sex; Mother Lizz is a hard-hitting slattern whose great regret is that she did not become a nun; Aunt Margaret is a well-built hotel cashier whose love affair with a lumberman lifts her into the world of affairs and drives her to drink. The only warm-hearted character in the book is Jim O'Neill, who suffers as he watches his children being taken by relatives, suf fers more as he watches his dark-eyed, high...