Word: nitwit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morals-complete with characters, including: one Millionaire; one Earl's Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments of the thesis, is not thereby deprived of the affections of the second daughter...
Subway Sadie (Dorothy MacKaill, Jack Mulhall). Out of material rich enough for genuine epic drama, they have extracted common cinema slush. The roaring subway," the jostled crowds are employed as sentimental background for a nitwit who wants to go to Paris more than anything else, but marries a poor subway guard instead. The guard turns out to be the son of the subway system's owner, so she goes to Paris after...
...play, however, are mainly to be heaped before the door of Miss Lynn Fontanne. This singularly fine English actress (known in America principally for her delightful " Dulcy ") quite carries the play away. Despite her unconquerable English accent, almost Cockney, she gives an amazingly effective portrait of the nitwit heroine. Her sense of humor, her touch for character values are remarkable...