Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claudette Colbert is a dauntless, stylish, long-suffering widow who has turned her back on love (Walter Pidgeon) in order to raise two stepchildren and pay off her late husband's debts. The stepson (Robert Sterling), just home from the Navy, is a nice, levelheaded boy. But the stepdaughter (June Allyson) is something straight out of Freud. Since no one has ever told her that the adored father who died when she was five was a weakling, a dipsomaniac and a thief, June sits all day at the piano, strumming Debussy and mooning over daddy's memory. Meanwhile...
Returning hopefully to Warsaw after a brief rest in Washington, His Excellency Arthur Bliss Lane, U.S. Ambassador to Poland, found his stylish, three-story embassy still occupied by the eight Polish women and one man who have squatted there since last March. Under Polish law the squatters cannot be evicted until "satisfactory " accommodations have been found for them. So far they have turned down all proffers. Meanwhile Ambassador and Mrs. Lane have been forced to set up diplomatic shop in a two-room suite in the drab Polonia, once a third-rate commercial hotel...
...from a musty Robert Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
Lady Windermere's Fan. Stylish production of Oscar Wilde's half-glittering, half-gooey drawing-room comedy (TIME...
Initiates may find the real meat of Bal Nègre in its elaborate ritual dances and act-long, story-crammed ballets. More casual observers may find these somewhat arty, and cotton much more to Bal Nègre's gay, stylish folk dances-and to its spoof of the ragtime and jazz cavortings of not-so-tropical climes...