Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Head Over Heels in Love (Gaumont-British) represents a heroic attempt on the part of England's major cinema company to get out a genuine U. S.-type musical comedy without infringing upon strict British cinema-quota laws. For industry and ambition, the effort deserves top marks. The producers not only imported Hollywood Scenarist Dwight Taylor, U. S. Songwriters Mack Gordon & Harry Revel and Manhattan Actress Whitney Bourne, they even used a back stage plot about a cabaret entertainer who becomes a radio singer while her partner (Louis Borell) goes to Hollywood, laid the scene in Paris, dressed...
Unfortunately the British trait of muddling through is more effective in international politics than in light entertainment. Where Head Over Heels in Love differs most markedly from a U. S.-made musical comedy it is hard to say. Possibly it is just where its director, Sonnie Hale, felt surest that he was on the right track, as in the scene in which his wife, Jessie Matthews, sings something called Don't Give a Good Gosh Darn with an enthusiasm that betrays only too clearly her exhilaration at the thought that she must sound just like Ruby Keeler. Through...
...allowed to grow naturally out of the story. In Fulton of Oak Falls it seems necessary for other members of the cast to butter him incessantly with such adjectives as "good," "gentle," "saintly," "grand" and "steady." He tells his next-door neighbor, a clergyman, that he was in love when he was young, that the girl went to Heaven, that although he has carried on as a good citizen, churchgoer and family man, his memories are what he cherishes most. "I never understood you until now," says the clergyman...
...Take It With You - A magnificently funny Hart-Kaufman family playing with fireworks, printing presses, snakes and love...
...Charles Chandler but his display of defensive technique was so impressive that 4,000 spectators cheered him throughout the bout, gave him an ovation when it ended. Said Blind Wrestler Allman: "I live for wrestling. If I lost out on the squad I would feel lost. You know I love the cheering from fans when I am down on the mat, but of course it confuses me before leaving my feet. You see, I must follow my opponent by the sound of his feet and the noise of his breathing...