Word: miljanic
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...civic organizations spluttered vehement objection. It was subsequently called St. Louis Woman, My Old Flame and several other things before Paramount chose Belle of the Nineties. Only two major changes-a hasty and unconvincing marriage at the conclusion and the removal of a sequence showing Mae West and John Miljan preparing to retire-were made before Censor Joseph Breen saw and approved the picture last August. Subsequently Belle of the Nineties passed the censor boards which the industry considers most fastidious, New York and Kansas...
...idol of St. Louis and of Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Tiger Kid is a prizefighter until his manager frames a telephone call which makes the Tiger think Ruby is unfaithful. Abandoned by the Kid, she goes to work at the "Sensation House" in New Orleans where Ace Lamont (John Miljan) seizes her in his arms. Miljan: "Your red lips, your white skin, your soft cheeks, your blue eyes, your. . . ." West: ''Say, is this a proposal, or are you takin' inventory...
...beautiful Russian girl who sacrifices everything to serve her country in the only way she knew how and the cross-roads she comes to when love crosses her path forms the plot of the picture. The cast includes Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward, Arnold, Noah Beery, John Miljan, Vince Barnett and Rollo Lloyd...
...this point the audience gasps in total surprise, morally convicting the brother of first-degree murder. The picture, how ever, proceeds to show the audience its error, in the courtroom. A novelty is Prosecutor John Miljan's jeering speech: "There is no such law as the unwritten law. . . . Our legislators do not say : 'This is the law but we will not annoy the governor by writing it down.' ... A woman's honor is her own and the shortest word in the English language will protect any woman's honor, and that word...
...among the serious rich. It is also any egocentric woman's dream of the life she would like to be able to look back on. Ruth Chatterton, as one of the richest women in the world, resists her hero (George Brent) to be true to her husband (John Miljan) who is opportunely snared by another woman (Adrienne Dore). Miss Chatterton is free to suffer a little, agreeably, and say the right, the irreproachable things to her husband's hussy. She gets a divorce and is gallant by transatlantic telephone. Men try to forget her but cannot. She fights...
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