Word: melissa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength from the free use the producers have been allowed to make of the Army Air Service's equipment. As far as performances are concerned, Wallace Beery does the best he can with the role of "Big Mike" in "West Point of the Air" and Constance Collier as "Aunt Melissa" in the other picture does a very good job as the eccentric old lady...
Crotchety old women who outwit strong men have become a cinema staple. To hers (named Aunt Melissa) Miss Collier brings a patrician nose, a rattly voice and a formidable vivacity out of the fine tradition of the theatre of 30 years...
...State Fair" is the squelching of Will Rogers and his comments on national affairs. He confines his activities almost exclusively, to Blue Boy's exhibition pen where he seems more at home than in the halls of King Arthur's court. Others in the cast, particularly Louise Dresser as Melissa Frake, and victor Jory as the barker, outshine their more highly paid companion, Janet Gaynor...
...Fair everything goes better than fairly well. Melissa sweeps the pickle show, Blue Boy sweeps the hogs. But Margy and Wayne are the real winners. On a roller-coaster Margy meets Pat, a journalist. Besides general information she learns a lot about love from him. Wayne receives a similar initiation from Emily, whose father, a horsy gentleman, follows the Fairs. Gently, and with no damage done, Emily seduces Wayne, but refuses to marry him when he proposes. She has merely given him, as Pat has given Margy, a free and freeing lesson in the art of love...
Back to the farm go the happy Frakes. Melissa will settle down to good home life again. Abel will see that Blue Boy propagates more perfect pigs. Margy and Wayne will return to Harry and Eleanor, able now to love without being abashed by love's physiology...