Word: puppeteered
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...considers that a guttural vocabulary disguises a voice very effectively at times. In this movie, Miss Harvey aspires to be a great dancer and is well on her way to fame when she falls, breaks a leg, and is temporarily crippled. An admirer of hers who runs a puppet show, invites her to take up his profession. There are several of Podrecca's puppet interludes which are quite refreshing. We do not see why Miss Harvey grew to loathe the puppets, as that loathing drew her back to the stage, but the last scenes of the skillfully manipulated puppets make...
...nearly died of gastric disturbances and a kidney infection. Statesman Herriot pointed out that hostilities between Japanese and Russians, if not between Japan and Russia, have in fact commenced. Thus M. Herriot cited the complaints of the Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway spanning Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. The manager, Comrade Julius Rudy, had counted up to 280 armed attacks by "Manchukuans" on his Soviet railway guards before Manchukuo authorities clapped six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern into jail at Harbin where they still languished last week. Since that time Russia's negotiations...
When Suzanne (Lilian Harvey) breaks a leg dancing, her rascally stage manager loses all interest in her welfare. A group of puppeteers take care of her and the scion (Gene Raymond) of the chief puppeteer falls in love with her. The rest of I Am Suzanne deals with Suzanne's uneasy feeling that Tony is really in love not with her but with a puppet portrait he has made of her. The mocking dances of his marionettes and her fiancé's dreamy affinity with them first confuse, then anger her. When her leg has mended enough...
...charm of I Am Suzanne lies in the way it tells a light love story and at the same time gently parodies it. Where the mood of the picture collapses is in such scenes as the one showing the puppet of Suzanne turning ridiculously into the real Suzanne on the stage of a theatre, the one of a heavy-handed adagio dance in which pretty little Lilian Harvey is tossed about like a beanbag by chorus boys. Good sequence: Suzanne's night mare, when she is dozing in her theatre dressing room, of her trial for murder...
...against the coronation of Japan's Manchu puppet as Emperor of Manchukuo was its onetime ruler the Chinese "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang...