Word: lovelessness
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...rescue him (and are killed or captured in the attempt), not for his own sake but as a point of honor, because he is their leader. The girl (Kathleen Ryan) tries to help Johnny because she would rather die- and if need be kill him-than endure a loveless life without him. An old priest (W. G. Fay) negotiates subtly for Johnny, because he feels that his business-a dying man's soul-is the really important issue. In his journey-toward-death, Johnny does encounter moments of compassion, but the charity is as shallow as the courage that...
Ginger, or Dolly, is forced by her Quaker father into a loveless marriage. When her husband, child and father are killed off in a yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
Helens in Hecubas. The second impulse that led Balzac to write the 90-odd novels of The Human Comedy, says Zweig, was his passion for women. In his early books, while still in his twenties, he had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. Women became his first devotees, wrote him letters by the thousands, frequently offered themselves to their indiscriminate advocate. Wrote Zweig: "This man could see a Helen in every woman, even in Hecuba, as soon as his will power came into play...
Once the plot's unlikely major premise is swallowed, the rest is easy: Claudette, looking as luscious as ever in her Adrian getups, is a loveless lady novelist who knows practically nothing about men. Wide-eyed, she boards a train for Hollywood to help in the filming of her smash bestseller. Who should turn up as fellow travelers but Marine Captain John Wayne and Lieut. Don DeFore...
...Duryea, Marshall Thompson and Marsha Hunt respectively), becomes a bosom friend of his wife (Gladys Cooper), and falls in love with his one worthy son (Gregory Peck). After trying to help settle a labor dispute involving Montague Barrymore and Capulet Crisp, she withdraws to watch her lover endure a loveless marriage (Jessica Tandy). The movie, as usual, provides a happier ending than the book allowed. In spite of dead stretches and hammy streaks, it isn't a bad story; but it is hardly worth two hours' expensively handsome, meticulous telling...