Word: tramping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Stout, a man of determined convictions, refused to discuss whys & wherefores; but, said he: "There was not one point of disagreement but several. It was a very strong disagreement." He said he was going back to "the work I'm happiest in-a tramp newspaper man." With his wife he will head west by automobile, taking plenty of time to chin with plain folks along the way. For his first self-assignment he chose "the biggest story in America today, the story of the revolution that is taking place in American life...
This Cowardly travesty is prittle-prattled by Princess Vicki Wilomirska (Norma Shearer), a penniless Polish refugee, and Baron Nicki Prax (Melvyn Douglas), a penniless Viennese. He aptly describes himself as "a tramp in a white tie"-a professional weekend guest; she is a well-set-up young woman looking for a U.S. millionaire. So they fall in love, marry, live off his rich socialite acquaintances, divorce, remarry after he has become an interior decorator...
Sturges' whipping boy is one John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), director of such comic hits as So Long Sarong, Hey, Hey in the Hayloft, etc., who unexpectedly rebels, wants to make a sociological epic named Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Sullivan, outfitted as a tramp, goes on the bum to find out about life. His bosses, who came from that side of life, know all about it and want no reminders, have him tailed by a busload of studio publicists-just in case...
Solitaire (adapted by John van Druten from Edwin Code's novel; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a harmless piece of flimsy-whimsy about a poor little rich girl who makes friends with a kindly old tramp, visits him in his hobo jungle, coos over his tame rat, prattles on about Life. Her snobbish parents and his tougher fellow tramps whip up, between them, some lurid melodrama, but nothing that a final curtain can't cure...
...picture starts in Hollywood, where Joel McCrea is Sullivan, a Hollywood director who decides he hasn't seen anything of suffering and hardship, and therefore sets off as a tramp to see Life. Of course he runs into Veronica Lake and the two of them proceed out together on Sullivan's travels. At first it is pure comedy, and excellent comedy at that. But then, in a long, silent sequence, Mr. Sturges inserts a serious documentary account of the hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time...