Word: sanatoriums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor yet seen...
...honeymoon vacation by the sea; one day she has a bad hemorrhage. Robert telephones his pals; they round up a doctor, get him there in a hair-raising ride. That time Pat pulls through, but her days are numbered. When winter comes she has to go to a sanatorium in the mountains...
...playing the piano in a prostitutes' bar. One day Gottfried is shot down on the street by a Nazi. Otto and Robert comb the city for the murderer, but someone else gets him first. An alarming telegram comes from Pat and Otto motors Robert to the sanatorium. Pat is dying, but it is a costly place to die in, and her money is almost gone. Otto goes back to Berlin, sells his beloved Karl, wires Robert the money. A little while later Pat dies in Robert's arms...
Hitch Your Wagon's first scene exhibits Rex Duncan (George Curzon), a onetime stage idol who has gone somewhat to pot in Hollywood, having the jitters in a Manhattan sanatorium where his agent (Joseph Sweeney) has placed him because of alcoholic excesses. A shapely young admirer comes in bringing a gift of noodle soup. She turns out to be one Camille Schwartz (Dennie Moore), encouraged to visit Duncan by a stage-struck mother. The actor is charmed by Camille's naive allusions to her simple, bourgeois life, even more fascinated when she deprecates his film appearances but admires...
...about four months of age she left the sanatorium much to our regret for this infant had become the pet of the nurses and doctors. She had been with us six months. . . . She continued to regress until she assumed the foetal posture, breathing gently being her only movement. At this time she was sent to a State hospital where soon she was gathered into the womb of her mother earth to which we all regress soon or late...