Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds, Mary White (Ann Harding) in this picture is baffled when her own life presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall) convinces her that what she mistakes for Love is merely spiritual chicken pox. This is the climax...
...Road, turned into Denmark Street (equivalent of Manhattan's Tin-Pan Alley), sought out a publisher who might be sympathetic. The young man had a tune to sell. He played it on the piano; the publisher asked its name. Ray Noble thought quickly. "Why, call it 'Goodnight, Sweetheart,' " he said. Thereupon Ray Noble's own name was made...
...belated adoration of an alcoholic socialite whom she meets just after he has been jilted, this picture partially succeeds in disguising the banality of its narrative by the freshness of its point of view. The competition that develops between Miriam Brady (Bette Davis) and the hero's onetime sweetheart (Katherine Alexander), now married to another man, for the affections of Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) is presented honestly and with touches of saving humor. Miriam's final triumph is due, not to her ability to behave like a lady, but to her ability to make her rival behave like...
When a jilted member of the socially elect stands drunken outside the church in which his erstwhile sweetheart is being married to a wealthier rival and proceeds to vent his bitterness in witty remarks about the holy ceremony, it is only fitting that a poor shop-girl standing by should save him from the police. Equally natural is it that, after diverting his thoughts from the river's brink in an evening of alcoholic pleasantry, she should marry the fellow to complete his salvation. Like most plots, this one has not all the elements of originality, but in "The Girl...
Reproached by his streetwalker sweetheart (Margot Grahame) for his failure to support her, Gypo chances to see, in the window of a grimy travel agency, a poster advertising passage to America for ?10. This puts him in mind of another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates...