Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It's a Wonderful Life. James Stewart and Frank Capra bring off a flamboyant, sentimental fable (TIME, Dec. 23).
If the picture adds nothing to his reputation as a producer of quality entertainment, it will be because Mr. Selznick's profit motive is showing. All costly films, to be sure, are manufactured for profit, but the successful works generally keep pointing winningly to their warm hearts and remain...
In those days, this was satire. Today, however, a song called "For Sentimental Reasons" is just fading out after about ten weeks of huge popularity, and both in its lyrics and its music it has "Love Is Like a Rose" all beat, right down the scale from conventionality to absurdity...
Don't point the finger of blame at the low taste of the public. Unjustly but firmly, it has been aimed there by publishers and songwriters, who have set up certain criteria as to "what will sell." According to them, only the most simple tunes and elemental hackneyed lyrics will...
A dearth of talent makes the situation worse. If tomorrow a call went out from the publishers for sophisticated, original songs, they probably would get few more than their current annual handful. During the twenties, which started off with Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern already established, every year or two...