Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot, more unusual because of its interpretation than its content, concerns itself with a young architect (Franchot Tone) who reclaims from drunken oblivion a once great actress (Bette Davis). Though already engaged Tone finds himself falling in love with Miss Davis and breaks his engagement. The issue however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...
Those who find the student's life a prosaic tedium will be particularly glad to know that at least in celluloid whimsy universities are still being run on rhythm, and Joe College is still at large. "Freshman Love" is the latest exposition of the rollicking, carefree, hilarious whirl that is the lot of the American scholar. Granted that the healthy reaction toward that title is a groan. No attempt will be made here to induce anyone to look at this picture, but the thing is not quite so bad as the foregoing classification implies...
...truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry about missing "Freshman Love...
...heart in such a flutter, I wire the love my lips would utter"! Collect, signed "Fanny". This, the Postal Company tells me, be canned sentiment 404 and comes from New Haven. But I no more of St. Valentine...
...found and foolish love of self...