Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung in the trailer window. His connection with Margit, until they make a deal, is limited to a friendship with her Bohemian sister Irene (Florence Rice) and the latter's gentlemanly fiance Waldo (John Beal...
...appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent. As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite the limp and a tendency to Fletcherize her lines, turned in the best performance...
...supplement the indirect description given by Shakespeare in the conversation between York and the Duchess. This, the play bill states, is an "historical picture in which the creations of the painter's art are endowed with animated reality." In a minor part supporting Kean was Kate Terry, the sister of the great Ellen Terry...
People who live to themselves are generally left to themselves. Such is the theme, and such the description of the puritanical wife of the man Craig, a woman who might have been Oliver Alden's sister, except that unlike him she was militantly ambitious...
...year-old Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, top place was well awarded for a finished performance. Remembering Laughter has a horse-&-buggy era, Iowa setting. Inhibited by his beautiful, strait-laced wife, spirited Farmer McLeod discovers in her equally beautiful but more lifelike younger sister a long-lacked audience and companion. A haymow discovery plus Calvinism plus an illegitimate child turn the McLeod household into one of the least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character...