Word: wynyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first time by women, releasing the men for war action...
...More River (Universal) investigates the domestic affairs of the Corvens?Sir Gerald (Colin Clive) who beats his wife with a riding crop; Lady Clare (Diana Wynyard) who leaves him in Ceylon?and young Tony Croom (Frank Lawton), who meets Lady Clare on the boat to London and falls violently in love with her. In London, Lady Clare and Tony Croom enjoy each other's company ecstatically but not improperly. Nonetheless, when Sir Gerald sets a detective on their trail, he finds them dozing together in an old Ford roadster. The result is an action for divorce which makes...
...people whom Mr. Latimer entertains in Where Sinners Meet are four amiable peewees, admirably suited to his favorite pastime of interrupting elopements to make sure that the participants are well matched. Leonard (Reginald Owen) is a gruff and ignorant milord running off with a charming lady named Anne (Diana Wynyard). Under Mr. Latimer's hospitable roof he is surprised to meet his wife Eustasia (Billie Burke) eloping with a toothy young bachelor named Nicholas (Alan Mowbray). By the time Mr. Latimer has given both his male guests colds in the head, stolen their razors and ruined their clothes...
...delicacy with which it was directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...
Turning to the acting, we find that there are still a few of the great hams left, of whom one of the primest is Reginald Owen. His interpretation of an Englishman is indeed unique and extremely boring, even as Americans view him. Miss Wynyard and Mr. Brook don't seem to work too well together, and Mr. J. Walter Ruben, who has never produced anything very startling, certainly didn't help them along to any great extent...