Word: putty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lya de Putti, 32, high-born Hungarian stage and film actress (Variety, The Heart Thief, Made In France); of pneumonia after an operation to remove a chicken bone from her throat; in Manhattan...
Made In France. It would be pleasant to record that Lya De Putti, the small luscious lady with the heart-shaped mouth who played opposite Emil Jannings in Variety, is as complete a success on the comedy stage as she was in the silent cinema. But this would be untrue. The scene of Made In France is laid in a chateau which a group of Americans have rented and in which the husband and suitors of the two ladies in the party were billeted during the War. One gathers that the gentlemen were active back-area cutups for when Miss...
Made In France may be considered as over-roguish, but no worse than the average biological farce. Miss De Putti's mumming, more enthusiastic than impressive, runs to posturing, comic mispronunciations, acrobatics...