Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British church films are the work of the society. A U. S. commercial film, Magnificent Obsession, in which Robert Taylor as a drunken playboy becomes devoted to a girl he has caused to be run over and blinded, has also made the rounds. To show all the public what church movies were like, the London Daily Express promptly pictured the scene. In Liverpool Actor Taylor proved too sugary a pill. There the picture was shown in two parts, filling the church for the first, practically emptying it for the second...
Joan Fontaine's performance in "Maid's Night Out" comes as a pleasing contrast. Although vaguely reminiscent of the old Hal Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals of the whole cast leave the audience in an exuberant, happy frame of mind. Just to make the program absolutely earth-shattering, the management has thrown in les cinq Dionnes...
...simplest terms the play is a struggle between a communist and a liberal or unreactionary conservative, as you prefer, for the possession ultimately of the world, intermediately of America, and immediately of a woman. A trifling playboy enters into the picture, too, but he is not an antagonist. It is not thought that he may inherit the earth some day. The best that can be said for him is said by the liberal: the latter is willing to gave even him, for his chivalry and his generosity, rather than see the communist triumph...
...girl is an irresolute person fatally destined to be her own destroyer. Movie stardom offered by the playboy is no more to her liking than being the first lady of New Mexico. The finance of the liberal, she allows herself, to put it mildly, to be seduced by the communist. Since, however, the latter has made no promises either to her or to the liberal, who was once his best friend and patron, neither can censure him for treachery when he walks off to keep himself unattached. Her end, and that of the liberal, are thus close of tragic...
Most of Abbott's actors have worked for him before, call themselves unofficially the Abbott Acting Company, team together smoothly. Arlene Francis is a countess who could warm any blueblood, and Allyn Joslyn, one of the merry scenarists in Boy Meets Girl, makes the playboy a likable wag in spite of his practical jokes and bowlegged puns. Sample: "A lecher is a man who collects lechings...