Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life and the Dream mixes warm, fond Irish reminiscence with some pretty cranky anecdotes about life & letters in the U.S., to which the Colums emigrated in 1914. Mrs. Colum is still angry at people who "misunderstood" her critical volume, From These Roots (1937). She is none too sure of the merits of various others, from Amy Lowell and Hart Crane to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...
Though never shown riding a camel, Walter Pidgeon seems uncomfortable enough describing a provocative negligee to a Smart Shop salesgirl, or dancing the Big Apple in a patched-up farmhouse. The misunderstood Miss Allyson and her confused stop-mother, Claudette Colbert, also try hard, but the highlight of the picture is a novel toy that spells out "I love you" whenever somebody spins it. This intriguing device again proves that MGM can always dig up something entertaining--even though it's not always a movie...
...know that we will not be misunderstood...
...fight Communism, he believes, is to show that in a democracy the little man can become a big man. "To be an American you don't give up liberty or privilege." Just in case anyone, misunderstood him: "This is the greatest country in the world and I don't care who knows I think...