Word: wenching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congratulations only on his industry. The opening of The Pure in Heart amounted to a wink, for it closed after seven performances. Whatever Playwright Lawson had in mind when he wrote Gentlewoman is lost, like his heroine, in words, beautiful but superfluous. Its most interesting character is a lewd wench (Claudia Morgan) who seduces the hero in the second act and gives the heroine a tart outline of a happy future: "I'll end in a Westchester cottage and torture my husband by being frank about my past...
...more entertaining than most of the little comedies about a suburban husband and wife who have grown bored with each other. When shy little Henry Smith (Howard Lindsay) suggests to Ellen Smith (Dorothy Gish) that they separate for a week, he hopes to encounter adventure. Instead he encounters a wench whose Junior League manners lead him to believe that, like the Smiths' governess and cook, she is a depression product, too good for her position. Ellen Smith encounters a pleasant Scotch explorer with a deep burr, who, while he seduces her, teaches her the proper way to brew...
...again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better education than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years in an English jail for shooting a peeler...
...business. It deals with the Atlantic City convention of the Honeywell Rubber Co. President J. B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell...
...Possessed" is the other feature: it lacks originality in plot, direction, and in acting. I should add that the photography was adequate. If there's anything that's commonplace and soporific in the movies. It's the gold-digging wench who suddenly becomes repentant: no less so the rakish, unscrupulous politician who is at heart the best chap in the world...