Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture emerges as a compelling and beautifully imagined piece of work, brilliantly directed by Frank Borzage, acted to perfection by Gary Cooper - whose numb mannerisms are pre cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last month voted best of the year. Benjamin Glazer and Oliver H. P. Garrett, two onetime reporters who wrote the scenario, had the good sense to use chunks of dialog by Hemingway wherever they fitted in. When they had to put in dialog of their...
...Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose sympathy for Grischa was horrified, heartfelt and ineffectual. Here Bertin is shown in palmier days. At the outbreak of the War he was a pale but ambitious youth, a promising author with no money, living in blissful sin in Berlin with Lenore Wahl. Her family, rich Potsdam bankers, looked down their noses at Bertin, not because he was a Jew (they were that too) but because he had no money and because he was regarded as unsound by the Junkers, whom they worshipped. Unbeknownst to her parents, lovely...
Best performance by an actress: Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet...
Helen Hayes played children's parts for Vitagraph in 1910 but The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which came after she had been spoken of frequently as the ablest dramatic actress on the U. S. stage, was her first noteworthy venture in the cinema. She had the role of a French peasant girl who takes up with a thief and turns prostitute to support her son. Like Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontanne made her debut in cinema last year and her performance in The Guardsman was one of three nominated for the Academy's award. The third was aged Marie Dressier...
Brooklyn and Boston, Princeton and Montclair heard the polished periods of Newton Diehl Baker. His refrain: "The Hawley-Smoot tariff was conceived in sin and born in iniquity." He charged that with this law the Republicans declared economic war on the rest of the world...