Word: overacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...displays of smug feminine understanding, may derive sneaking, sadistic satisfaction from the fate that overtakes Ann Harding in this picture. Otherwise its excellence is impaired when, in an attempt to achieve a horrifying contrast with the subdued tone of earlier sequences, Director Frank Lee permits his cast to overact the climax with some of the wildest grimacing witnessed since the screen became articulate. Good shot: Gerald excusing himself in a Paris cabaret to pick out his favorite brandy, in the cellar...
...Frederick (Madam X) put together in San Diego, Calif, in May 1933. After a 13-month drive across the western plains, it arrives on Broadway creaking like a stagecoach. So familiar has Miss Frederick become with every bolt and board in its rusty structure that she is inclined to overact, grimacing broadly at every tiresome turn, popping wide her eyes and flapping her hands at each sorry nuance...
...tour, musical comedy, three cafes and two operas Vienna, the play exploits the humorous and amorous possibilities of the butcher, baker, candlestick-maker life of the city. In keeping are the simple, cunning, and ludicrous characters, finely, but not brilliantly drawn by actors who show a tendency to overact their parts. The music is jazz, of whch nothing more need be said, relieved by some good waltzes and humorous bits, which Herr Max Hansen sings splendidly. If one understands German, the lines are worth hearing...
...exceedingly well played by Mr. Francis Compton, possibly the least amateurish of the cast in this particular play. Fortunately, there is only one comic detective, and he does not last long enough to matter. The guileless secretary and her lover do their respective jobs well, and do not overact. The rest of the cast may be described as being more than adequate...
...play catches a cosy, pleasantly pipe-&-ale sort of English atmosphere. There are two fairish songs. "Going Home" and "Tripping Round the Corner," and a series of musical interludes between the fast-moving scenes. It is probably because the piece is advertised as "Dickensy" that most of the players overact atrociously. George Carney, new to Manhattan, is earthy, rugged, ap- pealing as Jess Oakroyd. Valerie Taylor (Peter Ibbetson, Petticoat Influence) does a good job as gallant, eager Miss Trant. Hugh Sinclair plays Inigo Jollifant languidly in soprano. Sample humor: "Oh, you have a nasty mind; you must...