Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peg O' My Heart (Cosmopolitan) gives Marion Davies a chance to say "Wurra-wurra" and wear her hair in pigtails, the accepted procedure for actresses who, in this strangely enduring sentimental comedy, revive the role which Laurette Taylor originated in 1912. The play deals, as everyone knows, with an...
Hell Below (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of moods in this picture -engine room realism and chivalric romance-could not be a happy one in any medium. It could scarcely be attempted in anything but cinema, which can be immensely graphic and must usually be sentimental. The narrative of Hell...
Despite the fact that all these macabre heroics lead to a comparatively happy ending, Today We Live, adapted by Edith Fitzgerald and Dwight Taylor, is unmistakably a Faulkner production. Author Faulkner constructed it on the lines of his short story "Turn About," published in the Satevepost last year. It has...
The suspicious father who supplies the comic relief contrives to make himself asinine to even the six year olds, and Schubert's molt-a-heart-of-stone sob which climaxes the second act, are the bright spots in a sopping sentimental story
"Why, I'd much rather play before a crowd of kids from sixteen to twenty than I would before a crowd of middle aged folks. That's the truth. The younger generation are saying alas and alack with Mozart and the rest. They want something lively, and sentimental. Some time...