Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verdict, it seems plain enough, must rest on the answer to a very simple question...
...Gene Lockhart). Then she lures her husband's son (Louis Hayward) into patricide. Finally she is ready to steal a better looking man (George Sanders), who belongs to her best girl friend (Hillary Brooke). From the very beginning of these turgid, dragged-out, unconvincing carryings-on, it is plain that Miss Lamarr and her honeycomb lips will eventually wind up in Proverbial death and an Old Testament hell...
...delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that if I were to address you in person I should flop from time to time." In bed, he happily posed for photographers (see cut), assured the world: "This is not my deathbed...
...Angeles society was apprehensive, and the Los Angeles Examiner's society staff was in a pout. Without consulting either group Hearst had ordered a newsy, nosy, plain-speaking society column called "Artie Angeleno Observes." Hearst's San Francisco Examiner already had a "Fred die Francisco." Both were patterned after the New York Journal-American's long standing "Cholly Knickerbocker." In Los Angeles, Hearst picked a newspaperman, and a social unknown at that...
...Stern Brigitte cannot abide love in others. When a poor schoolmaster and a plain little seamstress wish to marry, she does her best to prevent it-then watches their poverty and sorrow with pretended concern but real satisfaction...