Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tallulah Bankhead home from the London stage with the intention of making her a picture star, Paramount has introduced her to U. S. cinemaddicts with three of the dustiest vehicles of the year. Tarnished Lady was claptrap about a girl who married for money and later regretted it. My Sin was a routine rigmarole about a lady who tried to conceal a Central American past in a Manhattan interior decorating establishment. The Cheat is along the same lines-about a girl who loses $20,000 gambling and to pay it, has to borrow from the villain of the piece...
...Glasgow as consul; when President Cleveland and the Democrats came in (1885) and Harte lost his job, he decided to stay in England. He tried every kind of writing (even advertisements), attempted many plays, but never repeated his early successes. With Mark Twain, Harte collaborated on a comedy, Ah Sin; it was a failure. Bret Harte was still toiling away at his hack-writing when Death came for him in Camberley...
...Tallulah Bankhead, Evelyn Brent, Greta Garbo, Ruth Chatterton, Marlene Dietrich and Genevieve Tobin have all in recent pictures attractively performed functions ranging from noble prostitution to carefree concupiscence. A Free Soul, Strangers May Kiss, Susan Lenox: Her Fall & Rise, Once a Lady, Morocco, Body & Soul, An American Tragedy, The Sin of Madelon Claudet, My Sin, The Smiling Lieutenant, Born to Love prove that the typical 1931 cinema heroine is a bad example...
...Dallas, Tex., Joe Hay, Joe King, Joe Ark and Joe Wah Yee sought an injunction to keep Joe Chung. Joe Kay, Joe Yick and Joe Sin from interfering with the management of their Chinese restaurant...
...Champ (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) will probably extract more tears than any other cinema made in 1931, with the possible exception of The Sin of Madelon Claudet (TIME, Nov. 9). It is about a broken-down pugilist (Wallace Beery) and his ragamuffin son (Jackie Cooper). There is really only one situation-Jackie Cooper struggling to go on worshiping his father in the face of Beery's unworthy behavior (guzzling, crap-shooting, brawling in bad company) and Beery, shamed at his shiftlessness, struggling to preserve his son's loyalty. Every time Beery gets drunk, gambles away the racehorse which...