Word: wastrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armed with the last vestiges of "The Royal Family" -- gestures, double-breasted suit, and all--he steps through his latest offering with a debonair air of assurance, avoiding the usual movie smart Alec flippancy. He plays the part of a wealthy wastrel, who reforms because of the proximity of a charming secretary (Claudette Colbert) with a natural grace. Just here let it be said that Miss Colbert certainly seems to be worth reforming...
...lady, whom his wife is about to have punished as a public nuisance; he loses a chance to be governor because he will not connive with politicians who are cheating the Indians out of their oil profits, then disappears again. The last episode, in which he turns up, a wastrel but still a hero, is unnecessarily theatrical, but it is one of the few episodes that can be objected to. Director Wesley Ruggles has smartly used every resource of his medium to make a picture so convincing in its treatment of a little publicized and exciting phase...
After a seven-month separation while the Fox publicity department astutely built up popular demand for their reappearance together, Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are brought together again in this rewrite of a stagey, old-fashioned melodrama. He is a rich man's wastrel son. She is a cabaret entertainer who is about to make a man of him, when they are separated. When they meet again she has become a drug addict and he is in the act of trading his fraternity ring for a bottle of booze. In a whirl of misty sentiment they work out each...