Word: munis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jean Herbillion (Louis Hayward), the night before he goes to join his escadrille, falls in love with a handsome Parisienne (Miriam Hopkins) who tells him her name is Denise. At the front, he becomes the close friend and plane-mate of a moody pilot named Lieutenant Claude Maury (Paul Muni). When Herbillion goes on leave, Maury gives him a note for his wife, Hélène Maury. Hélène and Denise turn out to be the same person. The triangle is straightened out when, back at the front, Herbillion gets killed...
...material for 1937 cinema, this story, adapted from Joseph Kessel's novel L'Equipage, appears to have only one serious fault. Emphasized rather than concealed by the careful direction of Anatole Litvak (a Russian making his Hollywood debut) and the industrious performance of Actor Muni, the fault is that it has been told so many times it has ceased being a story at all. Most banal line: Maury's to Herbillion: "It can't go on like this...
Aside from rather meaningless titles, the two films at Keith's Memorial this week-end present the best rounded twin bill we've witnessed this season. "The Woman I Love", starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins, tells the story of the usual love triangle against a background of the front line trenches on the Soissons sector in 1917, while "We Have Our Moments", a gay and riotous farce of twenty years later, put the audience in giggles the moment the news reel before it subsided and left many in the aisles exhausted at the end of the hour...
...Paul Muni plays the role of an infantry officer turned aviator, but after losing several partners in battle he falls victim to the distrust of his squadron mates, who believe him jinxed. Louis Hayward, a fellow officer, strikes up a friendship with him and makes his machine gunner in several brilliant air-raids. Meanwhile, in Paris and at camp, Hayward has fallen in love with Miriam Hopkins, Muni's wife, and this time it's no design for living. A situation that sacrifices the friendship of the two men on the altar of a woman's love can only result...
Academy Awards are gold-plated statuets nicknamed Oscars. Oscar for the 1936 best performance by an actor went last week to Paul Muni, who attended the banquet wearing the beard he used in his forthcoming The Woman I Love. The award was for his work in the title role of The Story of Louis Pasteur. Screenwriters Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Collings, who wrote and adapted The Story of Louis Pasteur, got two Oscars, for the best original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra...