Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England was picked. The picture cost approximately $1,000,000 and took a year to make. The result of all this money and mind, time and talent is, in David Copperfield, an example of the cinema's ability to use one masterpiece to create another. As rich, uproarious, tragic and astonishing as its original, it falls short in only one department. Twice as long as an ordinary picture, it lasts only two hours and ten minutes...
...Helen Menken) and Delia Lovell (Judith Anderson) are cousins whose bodices and bustles are right out of Godey's Lady's Book. But beneath their modish taffetas each is dressed in an emotional hair shirt. Both Helen Menken, whose make-up has become more & more white and tragic since her girlish theatrical holiday in Seventh Heaven 13 years ago, and Judith Anderson, a sultry lady with an odd smirk at the corners of her mouth, are past mistresses at handling a heavily dramatic situation. They are both quite at home in The Old Maid, for that opus narrows...
WEAVING his heroic story against the grim tragic background of the Armenian sufferings at the hands of their diabolically cruel Turkish masters, Franz Werfel has evolved a novel which for richness of narrative detail and skillful completeness has few peers. The pitiful plight of this downtrodden Christian people reached its climax during the early years of the World War when the young Turks set their oriental cleverness to the organization of their nation as solidified national unit on the Western pattern...
...with sensitivity and ambition, he has weathered a dismal childhood, a hellish adolescence, has married, halfway through his hard-won college career,a pretty slattern. Though he fiercely intends the marriage to be a success he knows the prospects are hopeless. We Are Betrayed is the story of its tragic failure...
...Tragic, life...