Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broken Noses. By & large, the cramped U.S. population had become as resigned as Chinese coolies in a Shanghai doss house. Yet here & there a savage temper showed through. In New York, a landlord was sent to jail for breaking a woman tenant's nose after she complained to the rent-control board that he was overcharging her (her rent: $40 a month for one room...
...couple of years ago, when he was running for office, Alabama's caveman Governor James E. Folsom was struck spang in the middle of a speech, couldn't rightly put one word after another. His roving eye had fastened on a fine figure of a woman in the crowd. He found out later that her name was Jamelle Moore, and that her daddy worked for the state. Jim courted her off & on, when he wasn't kissing other women...
...goes home and sinks into a big easy chair, grabs the evening paper and turns to the racing page. He is unmistakably boss at home. His wife is two inches taller than he is, but Arcaro likes her to wear extra high heels because he says it makes a woman's legs look prettier. For a while, he was red-hot on airplanes, bought one, and learned to fly it. But he got over it, just as he also cooled off on previous enthusiasms for bridge, tennis and backyard barbecues. The only sports he has never tired of are fishing...
...cast; a brat tormenting the neighborhood with trombone practice. But most of it is quite funny, and besides his feeling for slapstick and travesty, Director William Russell knows how to shade in some sharp authenticity. The most redolent blend of realism and caricature is Beulah Bondi as the richest woman in town. Another pleasing sight is Veronica Lake as a charming and capable comedienne. Good line: Veronica brushing off an infatuated ten-year-old with a brisk "I'm spoke...
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Universal-International) an adaptation of a novelette by Stefan Zweig, has the makings of an engaging kind of romantic movie that Hollywood seems to have lost its knack for. The setting is Old (turn-of-the-century) Vienna. The story: what happens when romantic love collides with fly-by-night love. The manner of telling is a blend of nostalgia and sad worldly-wisdom...