Word: prim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mountics don't get their man--the Texas Rangers walk off with him, and the Redcoats get only their woman. But Madeleine Carroll is the Canadian's bacon; so it would seem that Uncle Sam got the short end of the foreign exchange again. In contrast to the prim cold beauty of the blonde nurse, Paulette Goddard plays a passionate halfbreed who nearly loses the Northwest for the Union Jack by tempting a policeman from his post during an Indian rebellion. Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than the Redskins, a little bolder than the Queen's bravest...
...side wall off a Mayfair mansion of stately appearance, revealed it to have been one of London's most sumptuously equipped bagnios. The walls were covered with erotic frescos rivaling those of Pompeii, and a giggling crowd soon gathered on the sidewalk to ogle the pictures while gruff, prim London bobbies kept growling all day "Move along, there! That's it, move right along...
...conclusion is that it can be done. After three weeks of trying to make Ernie Craig eat eggs instead of gulping gin and of avoiding his friends from the band, Louise Channing still believes that love can overcome all obstacles. Even her prim Back Bay aunt is suddenly converted and sees no reason why Ernie's friends shouldn't be hers too. Unfortunately, the audience isn't so easily satisfied...
...Love You Again (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) proceeds on the sound assumption that a conk on the head can gravely affect a man's deportment. Conkee is prim & proper Larry Wilson (William Powell), who thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance...
...divided her ballet in half, gave the Dr. Jekyll half to a pleasant, domestic-looking chorine who recited excerpts from Emily Dickinson's hard-bitten verse. The frustrated, poetic, aspiring, cockeyed half she reserved for herself, danced it with a bevy of bouncing males that would have driven prim Poetess Dickinson to a sanatorium. When she was through, her intellectual audience broke into sobs and cheers. Whether or not any dancer's exterior can plausibly represent a poet's interior, Martha Graham had put on a good show...