Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost always funny...
Alessandro, Duke of Florence (Morgan), decides to have Cellini (March) killed, for fighting with a Medici. The Duchess (Bennett) wants him to remain alive until he has finished some gold plates for her banquet to the Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while...
...witty, handsome and preposterous adaptation of Edwin Justus Mayer's play, The Firebrand, The Affairs of Cellini would be a notable comedy if its only merit were Frank Morgan's performance as the Duke. Befuddled, stuttering, overcome by terror of his wife and incorrigibly concupiscent, Alessandro throughout The Affairs of Cellini never quite succeeds in finishing a single sentence...
...Morgan, Morgan, the raider, And Morgan's terrible men, With bowie knives and pistols, Are galloping up the glen! ?Constance Fenimore Woolson...
Partly because he was told in his youth that General John Hunt Morgan, most famed of Confederate cavalry raiders, was a villain, Biographer Swiggett was convinced he was a hero. After long study of the documents in the case, he is not so sure. This biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War will not end the controversy but it does throw some light on another murky corner of U. S. history...