Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently told not to play her siren straight, Miss Dietrich is naturally at a loss. By nature so sirenish that she is already practically a satire of a siren, she can scarcely be expected to kid herself. Her pretty posturing, pouts, stunned, exotic stares are meaningless when she tries to do them once over lightly. Pretty to look at, they are wasted voltage in a picture that aims to be a gentle comedy of 19th-Century manners...
Another surprise of The Great Lie is Mary Astor, in another comeback. This time, in a tight shingle bob, she is back with a bang as Sandra Kovac, a temperamental concert pianist* with a touch of siren. The overtones of her villainous role begin to sound, sometimes a little nasally, from the time she snatches Maggie's (Bette Davis) rollicking, playboy sweetheart, Pete (George Brent), and marries him in an alcoholic spree. When it is discovered that they have to do it again because Sandra got her divorce decree dates mixed, Maggie snatches Pete back, this time salting...
Brandishing his .38-calibre pistol fearsomely upon his belated arrival from Manhattan, Asbestos Boy Tommy Manville discovered that neither searchlights on the terraces, a siren on the roof, dogs in the kennel, or five lurking guards, had prevented burglars from cracking a safe on his whopping New Rochelle, N. Y. estate and snaffling $7,500 in cash, $500 in gold plate...
Like an air-raid siren through all the testimony sounded the need for haste. The British were running out of cash, declared the Treasury's Morgenthau. Since December all major British contracts had been held up. U. S. aircraft manufacturers would run out of British orders in April, unless Britain could issue new ones right away...
...time the film would be notable as a portrait of World War II. It opens with shots of London during an air raid, shots which bring to U. S. ears the eerie sound of an air-raid alarm (a cross between a fire-engine siren and a train whistling for a railroad crossing). It shows not only pictures of fires and damage in London but shots taken aboard German naval vessels at sea off Norway, of German artillery firing across the Channel, of U-boats at sea, pictures of England taken from German air raiders (with bombs visible as they...