Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan, Burleigh asks "Is he a fighter, too?" He is certain, however, that the championship is "in the bag." This piece of impudence so enrages Speed that, although he has about decided to foreswear the match as a favor to Burleigh's sister with whom he is in love, the bout takes place. Not only is Speed knocked silly but also loses all his marrying money by betting on himself...
...lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess is light entertainment, competently acted. Typical shot: Nancy lulling the publisher's suspicions that she is also the Princess by chewing...
...stage, and she is ready to give up her ambition when she reads that Ellen Terry never reached her zenith until she had a baby. Delivered of a baby, Linda gives up singing for dancing, shoots overnight to stardom. A few good hits behind her, and she falls in love with her newest leading man, handsome wasp-waisted Lorenzo Valenti (Philip Reed). She divorces Victor, leaves her baby, runs off to London with Lorenzo. Her new husband's infidelity sends her back to the U. S. just in time to be shut out of a room in which...
...throne after her illustrious father has nearly succeeded in making the Baltic a Swedish lake. While the conception of Queen Greta is a pleasant one, that of Queen Christina should not be neglected. Admittedly, assigning her to a role in which she had to give up a kingdom for love was unfair; her unusual technique was sufficient. But to place John Gilbert as the lover was suicidal. It results in a rather good, and ocassionally amusing. Garbo-Gilbert perpourri but as an interpretation of Swedish history, "Queen Christina" leaves much to be desired...
Frances Dee, in the role of the debutante, is attractive but the contortions which she must undergo at her own party to express her emotional ailments would usually leave the stag line undiminished. Gene Raymond is the musician whose love given Mrs. Stanhope's little machine something worthwhile. The there is Alison Skipworth, who performs creditably as the social secretary dictator with the inevitable lists