Word: lovelessness
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Specifically, then, under Cinema, p. 45, The Painted Veil, your premises are that 1) Mrs. Fane's marriage was loveless and ignoble at the time of her arrival in Hong Kong; 2) She committed adultery; and 3) Her marriage was neither loveless nor ignoble at the conclusion of the picture. From these premises you conclude that "the picture . . . can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cure-all." In other words, since the marriage was happier after the adultery, it was happier because of the adultery...
...Fane's relations with her husband had remained as they were when she first arrived in Hongkong, hers would have been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers...
...formula for spy stories is always the same, regardless of the war used. Gail Loveless (Marion Davies) meets Jack Gaillard (Gary Cooper) first in Martinsburg, where she is painted as an octoroon. She sees him next at Richmond where she is functioning as a Southern belle. By this time the audience is well aware that Loveless and Gaillard are information agents, he for the South, she for the North. The scene in which Marion Davies says "I love you so" is promptly followed by the one in which a Confederate soldier informs Gary Cooper that she is a spy. Then...
Lincoln, said one of his friends, "had a strong if not terrible passion for women." Nevertheless, he made a loveless marriage with Mary Todd, and was in such a nervous panic on his wedding day that he took refuge in the Illinois Legislature. Later, however, she got her man, for, said she: "Mr. Lincoln is to be President of the United States some day; if I had not thought so, I would not have married him, for you can see he is not pretty...
...screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when the soul is pure...