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Word: lynnfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theodora Goes Wild (Columbia). When the Lynnfield Literary Society met to ban a best-seller named Sinned Against, pretty Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) cast her vote with the rest. No one in Lynnfield knew that, under the nom de plume of Caroline Adams, she had written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Grant's reason for following Theodora to Lynnfield was to show her that she was inhibited. Having followed Grant to New York, Theodora made it her business to show Grant that he was in the same predicament, only more so. She moved into his apartment, scandalized his family by behaving like an adventuress, contrived to become corespondent in not one divorce suit but two. By this time, Grant's repressions were as thoroughly shattered as her own and the secret of Caroline Adams identity had made red-ink headlines in the Lynnfield Bugle. When Theodora returned there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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