Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Halifax to Victoria there were outraged cries. Canada's heroine of the year, Figure Skater Barbara Ann Scott, had been maligned, and to a man Canadians leaped to the rescue of their starry-eyed sweetheart...
Jimmy was 40 now but looked 30. On a stage stuck up behind the bar Jimmy drove out Jazz Me Blues and Nobody's Sweetheart in the same hard, terse, middle-range phrases that Chicago jazz fans had first heard...
Calcutta (Paramount) is a conventional, well-made melodrama about two U.S. airmen (Alan Ladd, William Eendix) who undertake to find out who killed their best friend, and why. In the course of finding out, Ladd and the dead man's sweetheart (Gail Russell) make uneasy but interested eyes at each other. There is some effective singing in a nightclub (by June Duprez), such side dishes of menace as a suspect gentleman in a turban, and some reasonably exciting mayhem in a pitch dark hangar. Gradually the investigators realize that they have unwittingly been flying the Hump for a gang...
...Then he is killed in an auto wreck. Queenie (Kay Walsh) is the real problem. A spirited, rebellious girl, with ideas above her class, she runs off with a married man and suffers the consequences. It is years before she is reunited with her gentle, sailor sweetheart (John Mills...
...bound Maine sea captain, sends him to sea instead. When his father orders a second voyage, Chris does not tell the old man to go keelhaul himself, and then leave home, penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side of his art; at a public concert which his socialite wife has promoted for him he digresses, in mid-concerto, into A Bicycle Built for Two. But at long last...