Word: sentimentale
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Lillian Hellman, gathers up a Jewish family of toadstools to prove that modern U.S. life is poisonous. In this emetic comedy, Playwright Hellman retches over psychoanalysts, alcoholics, beatniks, sentimental Negrophiles, romanticizers of the American Indian, epicene writers, slick shysters who run homes for the aged, the eel-spined younger generation...
Perhaps Abbott picked the wrong play, or at least the wrong author: O'Casey's prickly-pear mixture of the gay and the grim, the heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally...
God or a Cup of Coffee. Busy, bird-like Mother Seton was a woman both stern and sentimental. As a girl, she was wildly eclectic in her spiritual life, combining deep faith in the Episcopal Church with love for such scandalous deists as Voltaire and Rousseau. Tough when she had...
Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling, by Leonard Spigelgass. At a time when the immigrant mother is disappearing from real life, a blandly sentimental portrayal of her onstage is in such great nostalgic demand that Dear Me arrived on Broadway as a presold hit, with $400,000 in advance ticket...
Miss Gish is most frequently remembered for her performance in Orphans of the Storm, made in 1921 in Mamaroneck, New York. This sentimental epic of the French Revolution was one of the last independent productions of David Wark Griffith, inventor of the "spectacular" and a pioneer of film direction in...