Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened to many a man before now to find himself beginning to fall in love with another man's wife. That is the moment of critical decision and the right decision is that they should cease to meet before the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict between love and duty. That decision has often been taken by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is reinforced by the glamor of the throne, the moral obligation is more urgent for that reason. "Thirdly, let us remember that any kind of love which...
When Helen arrives in Ireland with her father (Henry Stephenson), an emissary of the British Government, Riordan's revolutionaries are skirmishing with English troops. She meets Riordan and they fall in love before she knows who he is. When she finds out, loyalty to her father prompts her to set a trap that almost catches him. Loyalty to Riordan then prompts her to go to him and explain what she has done. English soldiers surround his house. When he escapes, Riordan has to promise his supporters not to see her again. He keeps the promise until the night...
...There are always plenty of plot and plenty of dancing girls with curves in the right places. There is not too much gold-digging and, above all. the established ways of creating audience sympathy for leading characters are disregarded. Heroes and heroines of the Warner cycle demand your love by being either nincompoops or rascals...
Norma (Joan Blondell), a girl who cannot dance or sing, falls in love with Rosmer (Dick Powell), an insurance salesman who cannot sell insurance. Some of the stranded show girls in her troupe would put their foot against a train door and then keep on yanking at the doorknob till they got a man to help them. Norma, more modest, does better, lands a job as Rosmer's secretary. In Manhattan, one J. J. Hobart (Victor Moore), a hypochondriac theatrical tycoon, is being diddled by a pair of lawyers (Osgood Perkins and Charles Brown). Having lost the money...
...screen. Included are: a monosyllabic cabaret keeper (Joseph Calleia) who shoots at Detective Charles in an apartment house basement; Mrs. Charles's Aunt Katherine (Jessie Ralph), who breaks photographers' cameras with an umbrella as big as a pole-vault pole; mild young David Graham (James Stewart), in love with Mrs. Charles's cousin; a Chinese restaurateur (William Law) who looks like an owl, and a dancing girl (Dorothy McNulty), one of whose relatives is one of the total of three corpses discovered in the course of the entertainment. Good shot: Asta, inspecting his mate's litter...