Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Purchase Price (Warner) is a simple tale of struggle and blind love in North Dakota. George Brent is a bovine farmer who needs a cook and wife. Barbara Stanwyck, Manhattan nightclub girl, wants to get-away-from-it-all. She answers his advertisement. The picture hews close to the line of probability. The farmer's life is dirty, uncomfortable, exacting. His house is a bare sty. His manners are bad. Repelled at first, Barbara Stanwyck grows to love George Brent as his woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked...
Cinemagoers have watched Warner Brothers' hurried development of George Brent into a star to compete with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Clark Gable, who last week took a whopping salary cut (35%). Brent and Gable once acted together in Manhattan with Alice Brady in Love, Honor & Betray, were sometimes mis taken for each other. They are both tall, dark, wide-eyed, slow-moving. Both dress well, move their mouths a good deal when they talk, but they look not much alike. Brent, 28, an Irish newsman's son, was born and educated in Dublin. He joined the famed...
...trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean Sir Patrick Hastings, the Clarence Darrow of Great Britain. Last week Sir Patrick was in fine fettle. After witnesses had testified to Mrs. Barney's love for Stephen, and she had explained that the revolver went off while he was trying to keep her from shooting herself, Sir Patrick cried, "Her life was tragic, tied to an American brute whom she could not divorce! . . . Even one of us some day may have a daughter for whom...
...inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna, who is to be his love...
...loyalty to his mother Odin keeps the home fires burning cool. His Juviking father, Otte Vetran, returned from America, has settled in the neighborhood. He makes a quiet living at cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father. "It was queer to be walking like this all alone on a strange road. And he had felt the same when...