Word: miscasting
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...baskets of fruit as a Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett as Wrestling came nearest to saving the performance. He struggled bravely to make the audience sympathize with the soul-wracked bigot. He sang richly, made words intelligible. Sample from the dream scene...
...Shopworn," selected primarily for the limited talent of Barbara Stanwyck has the dubious honor of being the most badly photographed combination of miscast players, stupid lines and rehashed settings that this reviewer has seen in many a day. The plot doubtless plagiarized from Horatio Alger tells how persistence can overcome maternal jealousy and bring the loving couple together. Honors go to Clara Blandick and to Zazu Pitts for rather neat handling of character parts; but as for Regis Toomey in his first lead, and Barbara Stanwyck in what certainly should be her last,-all that can be said is that...
Miss Sidney is distinctly appealing. A certain unassuming genuineness and a smile that begins at the eyes and spreads down all help to atone for the vacuity of her blond, fashion-plate lover, Mr. Gene Raymond. Miss Sydney is one actress whom Hollywood does not miscast. She is given the parts she does best, parts in mental positions which permit her to look up adoringly and a little abjectly to the men of her heart...
...appealing. A certain unassuming genuineness and a smile that begins at the eyes and spreads down all help to atone for the vacuity of her help to alone for the vacuity of her blond, fashion-plate lover, Mr. Gene Raymond. Miss Sydney is one actress whom Hollywood does not miscast. She is given the parts she does best, parts in mental positions which permit her to look up adoringly and a little abjectly to the men of her heart...
Miss Twelvetrees has been repeatedly miscast since her first and best picture, "Swing High." An ingenue with an appealing trick of making her eyes tragic and a way of laughing and crying by turns, she would have a great deal to give to a fragile re mane like "Sunrise." But instead, the vastly commonplace Miss Gaynor usurps these roles, and Miss Twelvetrees is forced to play gangsters" molls and cast-off courtesans. It is not her fault that she has had to grimace in the grand manner or shrill thinly in melodrama. In "Panama Flo", she deals more skillfully than...