Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Sunshine Susie" boasts four capable leading actors, a not-too-elaborate plot that alternates from the sentimental to the ludicrously funny, excellent photography, and amusing sound effects. Renate Muller, as Susie, comes to Vienna looking for a job. She gets it, and eventually lands the Herr Director Arvay (Owen Nares...
Anyone who pays 25? to see the plot of Arsene Lupin, derived from the play by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis de Croisset, or to hear the dialog written for it by Bayard Veiller and Lenore Coffee, would have a right to feel disappointed, if not duped. But no one...
While Arsene Lupin was being made, Hollywood heard that the Barrymores were squabbling on the set, trying hard to steal each other's scenes. This was probably unfounded. Amiable competitors, they first played together in Peter Ibbetson. John, offered the role, refused it as "sentimental bunk" until he learned...
Vicki Baum is sentimental, for which no conscientious intelligentsiac will forgive her; but she tells a good story. And unlike most of her Teutonic peers and superiors, she has a sense of humor.
There was something sad and sentimental about all these names. They left behind a tale all their own, a tale half finished and inarticulate. Vaguely, the Vagabond thought of Gray in his church yard erecting for himself false gods. How many of these craftsmen had gone out to live unwept...