Word: mother-in-law
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...passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn Varden...
...recently divorced upon the suggestion of his psychiatrist," wrote Dorothy Ferman (pseudonym of a former newspaperwoman and advertising writer). "Several weeks later my husband voluntarily entered a sanitarium to be treated for depression. I, too, am depressed; I'm also angry. In our lives there was no mother-in-law, no 'other' man or woman. But there was always a psychiatrist...
...hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from Frank Fontaine, who plays his dull-witted sidekick, and Evelyn Varden, his conscience-stricken mother-in-law...
...diluted in 1924, for in an earlier and more brilliant form it was a vaudeville sketch. But its best bits are among the funniest of all tilting at windbags. The strutting $32.50-a-week clerk, who is neither cowed by the law he flouts nor squelched by the mother-in-law he infuriates, is most alive when most farcical. Lee Tracy plays him with noisy but un-brutal gusto, making him far more ham than horror...
Hothead. In Socorro, N. Mex., Gabe Monlia, vexed by his mother-in-law's interference in his married life, admitted burning her house down...