Word: maudlinly
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Either we never learned this lesson thoroughly, or sentimental woman-teachers are particularly strong at the box-office--for, "Remember the Day" is blandly offered up in the precise image of its forbears. It is, nevertheless, mildly palatable in a quiet, labored way--maudlin poppycock, but poppycock creditably brightened by the clever style of Claudette Colbert...
...dyspepsetic Senator who is investigating skullduggery. With this as a starting point, beautiful women, hit tunes and funny episodes are wound into the plot quite logically and smoothly. Most musicals regard plot and tunes as mutually exclusive, and are forever wedging in extrancous specialty numbers. But "Louisiana Purchase" has maudlin Victor Moore and Zorina sliding into "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" with an unobtrusive kind of grace...
...Meet John Doe," which starts today at the Met, is a typical Frank Capra picture, combining all the virtues and all the faults of all the pictures Capra has produced. As a highly sentimental sermon on the innate goodness of man, the movie is slow-moving, maudlin, and embarassingly over-done in spots. As a serious warning to America that a Democracy is not altogether safe from some of its own power-craving citizens, it is rather well-timed and forcefully presented. And lastly, as a humorous love story about a newspaper sob sister and an erstwhile tramp, the picture...
Attempting to prove the maxim that children make the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages, the film degenerates into a maudlin, slow-moving Hollywood case-history, which never seems to end. Cary Grant admirably performs the transition from slap-happy reporter to weeping father; and Irene Dunne--neither young nor undulating as she used to be--is passable as the sentimental mother...
...Parents Grant and Dunne cannot overcome the ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes plot. Written by Scripter Morrie Ryskind, produced and directed by George Stevens (Alice Adams), it is too often a moving picture which does not move. Skillful direction saves it from turning maudlin...