Word: underlip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of it to his latest and most formidable rival (Cesar Romero), it ends in a sequence which, because Director von Sternberg wanted it to mean one thing for stupid audiences and another for intelligent ones, winds up as a feeble ambiguity. Most tedious shot: Dietrich biting her underlip to express passion...
...Maggie Warren to noble penury. She sells her house and furnishings, goes with her dog, Mutt, to board at Mrs. Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes the gesture of committing suicide so that her life insurance will enable the bank to reopen. Wobbling her jaw, protruding her underlip and narrowing her eyes, Marie Dressier somehow makes the crude fable (written by Sylvia Thalberg, sister of MGM's Production Chief Irving Thalberg) laughable and interesting. Most vulgar shot: Maggie Warren finding out that the bottle from which she has been gulping what she thought was poison, contained something...
...Beery, shamed at his shiftlessness, struggling to preserve his son's loyalty. Every time Beery gets drunk, gambles away the racehorse which he has presented to his son, or is taken to jail for disturbing the peace, there is a shot of little Cooper sticking out his underlip and wrinkling his eyes. In jail, Beery decides to send his son to live in respectable surroundings with his mother. Cooper is unwilling to go. To make him less unwilling, Beery gives him a blow across the face, then smashes his own hand against the side of his cell. Even this...
...that time, Benjamin Leiner (Benny Leonard) had about $500,000 which he invested in real estate and a professional hockey team. A clean-cut little man with sleepy eyelids, confident, protruding underlip and well-defined paunch, he continued to be a familiar figure about training-camps, gymnasiums and other haunts of pugilists. Before every important fight he gave his expert opinion on who would win. In 1926 he allowed himself to be interviewed for Collier's. Said he: "My mother has pledged me against return to the ring. . . . They [promoters] know I've always kept my word...