Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though this plot gives the film an unfair advantage over sentimental audiences, and Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to put a shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...
...explained that his action, which was supported by the nation's armed forces, was necessary to save the country from a "formidable economic crisin" and a "fratricidal struggle" being plotted by political parties in their "morbid desire" to seize power...
Children's hour stories "must reflect respect for law and order, adult authority, good morals and clean living." Cowardice, malice, deceit, selfishness and disrespect for law must, be avoided, and so must torture, horror (present or impending), superstition, profanity, kidnapping, morbid suspense, hysteria, too much gunplay, death rattles...
...title of Kaufman & Hart's The Fabulous Invalid refers to the theatre, always said to be dying, never quite dead. But so many people have avoided the show, thinking it a "morbid" play laid in a sickroom, that it is now conspicuously subtitled "A Cavalcade of the Theatre...
...company's trademark, and every sound stage on the lot was a makeshift torture chamber. Under its new board of directors, headed by saturnine Banker J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal has completely reversed its trend. Instead of Boris Karloff, today its top star is Deanna Durbin. Instead of morbid criminology its forte is a peculiarly blithe brand of girlish comedy of which Service de Luxe is the latest sample...