Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plenty, may make devotees of Hemingway the sourest boycotters since Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised-for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)-results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME...
...away-in August 1902, when he was 16-with a flea-bitten stock company. They gave him his first part: a 70-year-old Methodist minister in a melodrama called Jim Bludsoe...
Cutthroats and Reformers. A generation later, the great Macready had given way to the cheapest melodrama, and the dukes in the audience to cutthroats. The theater remained an eyesore until a social reformer named Emma Cons (London's first woman County Councilor) nailed it as one of her jobs. She turned it into a genteel music hall...
...astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except for his distaste for Naziism; so are his friends in the underground. With the loss of this political energy the film not only loses its truth as a tribute; it also sacrifices, even as melodrama, its vitality...
...year-old Chamorro told a story that had all the melodrama of an oldtime cowboy-and-Indian two-reeler. The better-looking girls, she said, had to take turns going to the Jap officers' camp to cook-and "for other things." Her turn was due, she said, "the day the Americans came-just in time...