Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cynicism. The credibly forlorn scenes between the heroine and her brother (Arthur Kennedy) barely suggest a relationship that the Johnston Office might have scrutinized more closely. And Ladd's scenes with a cold and seedy blonde (June Havoc) show a consistent disconcern with what Hollywood knows as real love. Trying for and missing the punch of Double Indemnity, waltz-paced Deadline is further debilitated by Ladd's paralyzed imitation of Alan Ladd...
...that the money was secondary, sometimes gave herself to her customers "out of physical exuberance." At times, she thought about a cute cottage, husband and kids (she had first been seduced by a chauffeur who promised her all that). But she thought just as often about "how I enjoyed love-making and money and the things money can provide...
...impede the fluent lushness. ¶ Valmouth (1919) is a tale about high-society high jinks in an imaginary British health resort where the salubrious climate assures salacious longevity. The sexy heroine is a brisk 120 years old. ¶ The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) tells of the unrequited love of a French girl for a royal prince (addressed as "His Weariness"). It is set in an orchidaceous never-never land of languor and burning kisses, and contains the memorable exclamation (made, of course, by a female character): "If I live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never...
Occupational Hazard. In Richmond, the Virginia State Industrial Commission allowed a claim of $176 for medical expenses to Actor Mell Turner, who said that during a love scene he misjudged the distance, broke his nose on the leading lady's forehead...
Billet Doux. In Portland, Me., Floyd Kierstead, suing for divorce, charged his wife with carrying on a correspondence with the garbage collector, cited as evidence a love note he had found in the garbage...