Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marks. The producers not only imported Hollywood Scenarist Dwight Taylor, U. S. Songwriters Mack Gordon & Harry Revel and Manhattan Actress Whitney Bourne, they even used a back stage plot about a cabaret entertainer who becomes a radio singer while her partner (Louis Borell) goes to Hollywood, laid the scene in Paris, dressed the star as much as possible like Eleanor Powell...
...international politics than in light entertainment. Where Head Over Heels in Love differs most markedly from a U. S.-made musical comedy it is hard to say. Possibly it is just where its director, Sonnie Hale, felt surest that he was on the right track, as in the scene in which his wife, Jessie Matthews, sings something called Don't Give a Good Gosh Darn with an enthusiasm that betrays only too clearly her exhilaration at the thought that she must sound just like Ruby Keeler. Through the rest of the picture, Director Hale concentrates unhappily upon his wife...
...here lover's arms, and, with excellent direction and casting, meets every conceiveable test of modern preferences. Greta reaches the heights as the charming consumptive, Marguerite Gautler. Her seductive shoulders are bared frequently with the desired effect, and the delicately ethereal effect of her appearance in the last scene is nothing short of great acting. Opposite her is Robert Taylor as handsome Armand Duval is convincing in the most tortuous windings of their love affair. Only occasionally did he seem a trifle stolid and remind us of his Pomona College years...
...bloody period of American history when each move to the westward was greeted by wholesome bloodshed and torture from the Indians. Treachery on the part of eastern gun manufactures who send large shipments of a new and improved model of rifle to the Indians, leads to the great action scene where trick photography has achieved the most effective moving attack we have seen in years...
...found that are capable to dispel gloom, warm up support, and check the present day tide away from extra-curricular activity. For in their function of providing light and cheery entertainment, amusing to audiences and players alike, the Clubs hold a unique and vital position in the college scene. If capable officers are chosen and vigorously supported in their plans for the ensuing year, a few changes and readjustments will send the Clubs off to a new and a fast start...