Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moment (First National). Billie Dove re-establishes an oldtime tenet of picturemaking, to the effect that if an actress is good-looking enough she does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up some thing about a bride who gets out of her husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among...
Their coming was a proud moment for Pastor Hoas, pastor of the Gammal-Svenksby church. Six months ago he arrived in Stockholm. He told how the coming of the Soviets had brought poverty and distress to Old Swedish Town. How the Bolsheviks had closed his church. How they had taxed the little farms nearly out of existence. How the Gammal-Svenksby exiles had no shoes, little food, few clothes, and how they longed to return to the Sweden their ancestors had left. He saw and particularly impressed the King's brother, Prince Karl, Duke of Vastergottland...
Hours before the ferry bearing the exiles was expected, the entire population of Trelleborg was at the pier, with bands, flowers, flags, and Swedish Boy Scouts. The moment the ferryboat landed they rushed forward, cheering, weeping. Embarrassed Gammal-Svenksby exiles, with sunken windburnt faces, found themselves being kissed, hugged and thumped by hysterical strangers...
Wired a correspondent: "It was a moment of unforgettable national feeling...
...roles real no matter how badly written they are. This story about a fashionable woman who insists on the right to make her own mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which grow its romantic, typically cinematic situations is also the basis of a moment of drama. Greta Garbo has had a love-affair with her chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around on his yacht in warm weather until she finds out that...