Word: sentimentale
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For Desi and Lucy, the trip to the RKO lot was at once a sentimental journey and an ironic triumph. It is where they met, fell in love-and left in the early '40s under the shadow of Desi's dropped option. Since then, babyfaced. Cuban-born Desi...
Stage Struck (RKO Radio; Buena Vista) is a vigorous second blossoming, this time in hothouse Technicolors, of Morning Glory, the sentimental success of 1933. First time out, the blooming little idiot of the title role was portrayed by a young comer named Katharine Hepburn, and the performance won her an...
In short, South Pacific is about as tastelessly impressive as a ten-ton marshmallow. Nevertheless, it will probably run almost as long as it did on Broadway (1,925 performances), and it seems sure to make yet another bale of kale for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. If it does...
The lovefest came as a complete surprise to Atkinson, an inveterate party-dodger, who was lured to the restaurant by his author-wife, Oriana. The "sentimental works," as Variety called it, included a citation from Actors Equity, encomiums from such absent admirers as William Saroyan and Clifford Odets, and a...
But President Wilson was in an idealistic swivet. In Kennan's view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the...