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...Hell Cat (Columbia), remotely derived from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, concerns a spitfire heiress (Ann Sothern) and a hardboiled newshawk (Robert Armstrong). When the reporter slaps her face, she disguises herself by dyeing her hair, takes a job on his newspaper, maneuvers him out on her father's yacht so she can ridicule him to her friends. Suddenly she decides she loves him. Designed for second grade theatres and double feature programs, The Hell Cat is better entertainment than most Hollywood trivia of its class...
...capacity to transfer literature to the screen without losing its precious essence. But there were real difficulties: Would the public accept a clubfooted hero? What was to be done with a love story involving a young man's revulsion from his baser instincts? How could a hateful shrew of a girl be portrayed by any actress known to Holly wood? As a practical answer to these questions. Of Human Bondage is a good picture taken from a great book...
Tabor was never spoken of as Haw, but as H. A. W. or as Tabor. Mrs. Augusta Tabor was not a shrew, just a sensible hardworking wife; a mother just a little foolish about her only son, Maxy. A business woman successful until in an unguarded moment she backed Maxy, was thrown against the '93 panic and went broke...
...house fronts. These include the Curry household where the wife (Adrianne Allen) is absurdly jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous father-in-law (Charley Grapewin ); the Morrow household where a shrew runs the Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing...
...lord for himself. His scheme succeeds, and when he delivers his chosen province from the tyranny of The Hawk, brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready & waiting. The Hawk's woman is attractive but untractable, finally seems to yield to Wang the Tiger's shrew-taming blandishments. He marries her, loves her like a war lord, and when he finds she is plotting to betray him, kills her on the spot. This incident gives him a dislike for women; his other wives are taken merely as good investments. As Wang the Tiger's star rises...