Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That part of John Meade's Woman which is geared to these phenomena is an effectively written, well-photographed slice of U. S. industrial history. Less effective is the overlong recital of the process by which John Meade comes to jilt his society sweetheart (Gail Patrick) by marriage with the humblest woman he can find (Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade...
...rendition of Yankee Doodle, or that his famed chuckle derives much of its effect from its irrelevance to the context. Ed Fulton likes lilacs and Tennyson's poetry, wants his family to be happy. His daughter is unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When the young pair go off for a clandestine weekend and are seen posing as ''Mr. & Mrs. Johnson'' on a garish hotel terrace, the escapade takes on a tawdriness which a similar situation...
...given High Tor a young owner named Van Dorn (Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy and gut, and at the same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft); a crooked judge and a traprock official...
Songs: The Sweetheart Waltz, I Adore Yon, So What? Rhyme for Love...
...Street of the Fishing Cat responds like a seismograph to every shift in European politics. Anna Barabas works for a dressmaker, loses her job when French and Hungarian political relations grow tense. Her scheming sweetheart is arrested in a swindle, jailed, deported to Hungary, where he becomes a movie director. Anna and her father make a desperate expedition to South America, try to return to Hungary, symbolically find work in Paris when Franco-Hungarian relations improve. Just as the small foreign colony grows stable it is disrupted again by a flood of German refugees. Anna, as divided in mind...