Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls, armed with rifles and machine guns, whose thirst for blood seems unquenchable. They kill for the mere sake of killing. They break into homes, throw all furniture, books and pictures out of the windows, pile them up and set fire to them. They are animated by a love of destruction and death. The present reign of terror and massacre in Barcelona bears no resemblance to any ordinary conception of revolution or civil war. I was held in jail for three days because they thought I looked like a German-those Barcelona radicals have an intense hatred of all Germans...
...characters may have to real people is due to coincidence. Seldom, if ever, has the remarkable influence of coincidence on screen writing been so apparent. After Joan (Alice Faye) has met Farraday (Adolphe Menjou) in a night club, their romance curiously suggests certain headline episodes in the recent love-life of Miss Elaine Barrie and Mr. John Barrymore...
...Simone Simon is the star of this picture. Producer Darryl Zanuck designed it expressly to provide a vehicle for her U. S. debut, and Screenwriter Gene Markey and Director Irving Cummings have intelligently fitted the material to her talents. As Marie Claudel, an undergraduate in a European seminary, she loves Stephen Dominik (Herbert Marshall), the head of the school. When a romantic, unsigned letter in her handwriting, addressed "My One and Only Love . . ." is fished out of a classroom wastebasket by an invidious and sex-starved school mistress (Constance Collier), the child is suspected of an outside liaison, forced...
Girls' Dormitory is an intelligent exanimation of a first love too robust to be dissipated in the adolescent dreaming which initiated it. Skillful craftsmanship by all concerned eliminates the pitfall lurking in most stories of young girls in love with older men, i. e., that the hero will appear a prude if he rejects the heroine's advances, a lecher if he welcomes them. Helped by U. S. lighting and No. 28 makeup, Simone Simon is more embraceable than in her last French picture to reach the U. S. (Lac aux Dames), but Girls' Dormitory, as first...
Climax of Ben's life occurs when he falls in love with a queen. Ruler of a small country famed for its tyranny, she is on a visit arranging a loan; Ben meets her by accident while she is sneaking a last cigaret before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions...