Word: myrna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with District Attorney Wade, is soon married...
Well directed by W. S. Van Dyke, superbly photographed by famed Chinese Cinematographer James Wong Howe, Manhattan Melodrama is first-rate cinema, chiefly important because it marks the elevation to stardom of Myrna...
...heroic sufferings which manfully struggle to remain respectfully beneath the surface. Clark Gable behaves splendidly; his happy-go-lucky disposition adequately prepares a rather tearful audience for his inevitable tragic end. The truly noble sentiments of William Powell, as Jim, never leave his actions or his future in question. Myrna Loy, struggling with her loyalty, to both men, comes to the only sensible decision. All three behave logically, although the maelstrom of tragedy holds them in its grip. Yes, you might try the State this week. It will at least demonstrate that some New Yorkers possess commendable characters...
...Goldwyn-Mayer) stays well inside the stern plot of Sidney Kingsley's play which is one of this year's strong contenders for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. George Ferguson (Clark Gable) is an able young surgeon interning at St. George's Hospital. His fiancee, Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), feels that he pays too much attention to his job, too little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White: a hysterectomy...
...Hochberg, played splendidly by Jean Hersholt, is the motive force behind the story. He has sacrificed everything honestly to make himself a great doctor. It is he who shows young Ferguson the relation between his duty to the medical profession and his personal happiness. Myrna Loy and Elizabeth Allan are capable, but since they are only foils in the story, have little chance to shine...