Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground out by some studio back with a memory stopping at the year 1918, and with a bad case of the jitters; the music, if you care to call it such, is not bawdy enough to do the lovable Mae justice, and there is not enough of it. The plot is jerky, patchy, and long miles from the empyrean ether of originality. In short, the production has its faults...
...dusty yard crawls with lechery. Lov lusts for his runaway Pearl. Ellie May for Lov, the lady evangelist for young Dude, Jeeter for the evangelist. An external plot arrives in the person of a bank agent come to put Jeeter off the land. For the $100 annual rent required, Jeeter sends Son Dude off in his new car in an unsuccessful attempt to borrow the money from another son. The car runs over Mother Ada. As she dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother...
...November 1931, the Satevepost published a short story called "Almost Reilly," by Robert Winsmore. Plot : Scatterbrained young Mrs. Madge Wrenn repeats to her stockbroker husband a tip which her hairdresser has received from someone whose name is "Almost Reilly. . . . Not Kelly. More like Reilly." The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time William Wrenn finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and lost money. Madge Wrenn has bought before gossip sent the stock, up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk the tip started...
...June 1933, Collier's published a short story called '"On a Lady's Advice." by Edward Gardner Jr. Plot: Scatterbrained young Betty Woods repeats to her stock broker husband a tip which her dress maker has received from a woman whose name Betty Woods does not know. The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time Jerry Woods finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and made money. Betty Woods has bought before gossip sent the stock up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk...
...with a naturalness that is commendable. The other roles shatter no illusions, with the exception of that charmingly and competently portrayed by Miss Ginger Rogers. It is true that Gregory Ratoff acts as though he were "casting artificial pearls before genuine swine," but then, as the producer in the plot, he is sitting pretty...