Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incurably ill wife Elise, and, to the accompaniment of vibrant organ "strains," calmed a gun-toting hysteric. Supervisor Max Wylie, who has had an expert hand in such sudsy classics as Portia Faces Life, asked listeners to be patient, promised that soon "we're going to do adult soap opera for the first time and get away with...
...sudden there was this Leperditia Carbonaria leering up at me from under the soap-dish...
Though such indecision is often a dangerous symptom, Payment on Demand is good enough for moviegoers to care how it ends. The plot is not far removed from soap opera, but thanks to painstaking treatment and acting, it is a comfortable distance. Back again at the old tricks she discarded for All About Eve, Bette Davis plays a hateful woman as well as ever...
...soap-opera fan could guess, there would be a few more scenes of cliff-hanging suspense. Then India would get its grain...
...Encounter. The plot meshes smoothly, the dialogue is suavely written and spoken, the score puts Kurt Weill's lovely September Song to good sentimental use, and a soft haze of glamor rises from lavish interiors and antiseptically romantic Italian vistas. The effect is as shimmeringly pretty as a soap bubble, and just as hollow...