Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veteran, acclaimed as a hero, who has assumed the honors due a dead comrade. In China he meets the widow of his slain buddy, now any man's plaything. To discharge his debt, the hero decides to rehabilitate her by marrying her and discarding his own sweetheart, but she finds a knife is a better solution of their difficulties. Bebe Daniels is impressive in this tragic role, acting without the help of a single bathing costume...
...Sweetheart...
...oarsman decides to keep silent, despite the strident urgings of his sweetheart, whose stagnant purity is the one false note in the play?everyone else is as humanly frank as the law will allow. Louis Calhern gives a redoubtable performance as the Yale oarsman, achieving the feat of looking like a 'reluctant caveman. Judith Anderson is exceptionally facile as the insidious cobra. Ralph Morgan as the betrayed husband and Clara Moores as the insistently good sweetheart add to the absorbtion of a drama that leaves one flushed...
...leisure to discover he has a soul which also needs polishing. At his Long Island home radiant male and female butterflies foment his yearnings, having ideals to exchange for free board and lodging. Willie's old- fashioned mother sets them all down as parasites and summons Willie's boyhood sweetheart from the Middle West in the hope of once more striking a responsive chord...
...Darling, sweetheart, ma mignonne. . . . our home. No more hotels. You and I will be the happiest people in the world. Say you like it,' and he tried to kiss me again. ... I freed myself...