Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were tired of just being a playboy?" chirped a newshawk...
...such chapter headings as "the Practical Poet," "Escape," "Rebirth," and "Achievement," Mr. Calvert traces the trend of Byron's gaudy career as playboy and poet. He dissects painlessly the processes of Byron's hasty and sometimes haphazard composition. He devotes time to analysis of Byron's satire--what part of it is pure wittiness, how much deliberately vengeful...
...locution would seem more startling were not the other characters in After Office Hours equally freakish in their mannerisms. The hero, Jim Branch (Clark Gable), is a managing editor who, for no apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high life...
...Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club operator...
...other movie, which presents Joan Blondell as virtually a loose woman, with an equally loose companion is supposed to be fast moving. It depicts the life of two opportunist gold diggers with hearts of "gold," a millionaire playboy, a divorce, and Paris. They all do pretty well...