Word: truex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed Mr. Fairbanks might have done as well as Mr. Truex had no been cast in the part which Truex does so naturally, the fawning, effeminate, degenerate, and heavily-tressed and dressed male in Amazon-land. For Mr. Truex though good, was not what he might have been. The most satisfactory figure in the film, to this reviewer's mind, was Hercules, a broken nervous wreck of a man, standing six-foot-six in bearskin and beard, holding his monstrous cub in his right paw, and biting the finger nail's of his left in panicky fear of a small...
...incredulous when told that Greek troops, all males, are threatening the Amazon capital. Her sister, Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) is amazed when one of her counselors suggests that she try the unheard of experiment of marriage. She ridicules the idea of staying faithful to her silky little groom (Ernest Truex) but agrees to the ceremony because her treasury is running short of money and his mother has plenty of it. The main trouble with The Warrior's Husband is that its theme lacks capacity for development. Once the original idea sinks in there is nothing very comical-unless...
...receive. Best Sellers (by Edouard Bourdet; Lee Shubert, producer) was adapted from the French by Dorothy Cheston Bennett and is concerned with the foibles of literary and publishing folk. Shrewd Mosca is arranging to have one of his authors win the coveted Zola prize when humble Fournier (small Ernest Truex). his forgotten Wartime companion, comes to call. Fournier is jostled and insulted by the secretaries, office boys, critics, novelists who jam the great man's office. He is allowed to cool his heels until the publisher learns that the prize committee has capriciously given its award to Fournier...
Plymouth--"Whistling in the Dark." Ernest Truex. Superb, obvious, clean humor...
Next victim is to be a prominent citizen who is conducting a civic investigation. The gang put it squarely up to the perfect murderer: either the investigator's life or his own. When Mr. Truex substitutes powdered sugar for the cyanide things begin to look very dark for him indeed. He saves himself and his fiancee by the neatest trick of the melodramatic season. Whistling In The Dark is not a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize, but it has wit, freshness...