Word: plot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of London's diamond horseshoe. His musical show, The Beggar's Opera, became London's biggest...
...adopts a baby only to learn that she is going to have one, has twins. Sister No. 3 is beyond all reasonable doubt going to have a baby, but its father (John Garfield) committed suicide in Four Daughters. Without waiting for the baby to arrive, she curdles the thickening plot by marrying her unborn posthumous baby's father's rival (Jeffrey Lynn...
...long time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office has found out that the younger generation clinches once or twice before they're twenty-five. All in all, "Babes in Arms" is a top-flight musical, has a plot with a kick, songs with some oomph and Rooney. Wonders will never cease...
...star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole at the crucial movement, thus leaving the road open to dour Don. In spite of an overdose of Ameche and the triteness of the plot, Buster Keaton and the Cops make it worth dodging through the maniac drivers on Harvard Square...
...magician, a pretty, home-loving girl, a threadbare plot--that is the whole of "Eternally Yours". It all hinges about Loretta Young, whose change from historic thrillers to modern nondescript is much for the worse. In this lovodrama, she has to choose between a boring suitor and a crafty magician. The snave charlatan, David Niven, offers here excitement and some other things, too. With him, she is whiled through a hectic Hollywoodian adventure; they cruise around the world, sometimes doing parlor tricks, sometimes performing feats of magic. Back at home, though, the other suitor waits, offering her his stolid security...