Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit of "Marked Woman" be it said that it brings Botte Davis back to America at a time when the American film audiences are in need of a few pictures about fallen women. American morals, especially New York morals, especially the morals of rich New Yorkers and provincials visiting New York, are definitely low, as everybody knows. If they were not, there would be no "clip joint" racketeers like the one who is the villian of this piece. If he were not in it Miss Davis could not be wronged. And that is her specialty, the thing she does before...
UNIVERSITY -- Waikiki Wedding: 3:00, 6:25; 9:50. Married Woman: 1:30, 4:50, 8:15. Better Than Average Program...
Danny (Montgomery), brash young page boy at an English inn, turns up in the tidy cottage where Mrs. Bramson (Dame May Whitty) lives with her niece Olivia (Rosalind Russell) the day the police are combing the woods for the body of a woman who has mysteriously disappeared. Mrs. Bramson, a doddering hypochondriac, has sent for Danny to rebuke him for misbehavior with her maidservant, but before he leaves, his aggressive understanding of her symptoms induces her to hire him as a male nurse and companion. When Danny moves in, the most noteworthy item in his luggage is an old-fashioned...
Neither detective story nor melodrama, Night Must Fall is concerned not with how Olivia arranges Danny's undoing but how he nearly arranges hers. Instead of sending her scuttling to the police, Olivia's growing awareness that Danny has killed one woman and is planning to kill another gives him a fascination for her which, when a curious police inspector is examining the hatbox, makes her remove it before he gets a chance to look inside. Horrified at her reactions, more and more drawn to Danny, Olivia twice tries to run away but comes back both times...
...JOPPA DOOR-Hope Williams Sykes -Putnam ($2.50). First-person narrative, in broken but clear English, of a German immigrant woman who settled in Jerusalem, moved on to Utah in the early days of the Mormons...