Word: smartaleck
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...FACT, the movie's best scenes are those between Gil and his children. When Marlene, his Smartaleck young daughter, asks her brother if he almost died during a farming accident (which of course occured during the midst of the inevitable storm). Gil relieves; he tension by answering that he too almost died once. "When I first saw your mother, right there in history class. I had a heart attack--fell right off my chair. They had to call an ambulance and everything," ambulance and everything...
...confuse their aversion to a character with their critical judgment of the actor's exposition. Particularly is this true in the case of William Haines. This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness. In this piece he is the smartaleck vaudevillager whose wife becomes a famed cinemactress while he is left in comparative obscurity. He wins her back from a sleek cinemactor (Ricardo Cortez) after slap-stickery and problem-solving...
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