Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moon's our home (Paramount...
...girl you mar ried once." However affecting the double-entendre of the exchange may be to people who know all about the private lives of Miss Sullavan and Mr. Fonda, the fact remains that up to the time at which this dialog is spoken, The Moon's Our Home is an agreeable effervescence, which then sags to a repetitious, overcomplicated ending...
This scene, funny though it is, is not quite enough to make The Moon's Our Home diverting for the hour and 20 minutes it runs. Following the fashion, critics will doubtless credit Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell with the many knowing lines and pleasant minor touches, hold the lesser scribblers who worked on the picture responsible for such hackneyed characterizations as Henrietta Crosman as a termagant grandmother whose heart is secretly abrim with kindness and Charles Butterworth in his infinitely tiresome reproduction of an infinitely tired young...
...Additional dialogue by Dorothy Parker" makes the story of "The Moon's Our Home" what it is--a delightful comedy brim full of witty Parkerisms. Faith Baldwin may have written the original story about two celebrities--one a Richard Halliburton and the other a Garboish actress--who hate one another's reputation, but fall in love under their original names of Brown and Smith, marry, and presumably fight ever after. But the spirit, praise be, is that of Miss Parker. Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda play the parts of the temperamental lovers with high-spirited zest. Charles Butterworth contributes...
...same Constitution and to judicial review. Until the President comes out with the bravery to propose an amendment to the Constitution giving the federal government control over intra-state industry and commerce, his benevolent aims for labor must be regarded as a most transparent species of reaching for the moon, or for the votes...