Word: artlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively artless picture of life on a South Texas farm, written with such quiet good nature that, when it suddenly turns into a tale of murder and suicide, the transition is almost as shocking as the events themselves. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the title story, brings Miranda back, separated from her husband, working...
Dangerous to Know (Paramount) is a glowering melodrama with artless plot, artful production. Akim Tamiroff, alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, has had 60-odd Hollywood roles, nearly all of them brooding and villainous, most of them whiskery. In this picture he is a thin-mustached, esthetic bigwig racketeer who tunes his moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare...
After eight years of interviewing industrial leaders, explorers and prominent people generally, Joseph Mitchell came to the conclusion that "the best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell...
...Eileen Crowe), a young country girl born the wrong side of an aristocratic blanket, is an open-hearted flirt with illusions of grandeur. Rejecting Yokel Michael (Arthur Shields), she marries middleaged, blue-blooded Bachelor Stanislaus Gregg (F. J. McCormick). Crisis of this ill-matched marriage comes when Stanislaus finds artless Katie and naive Michael together, decides to transfer his wife permanently to the less tempting air of Dublin...
...hard put to circumvent the vigilance of jealous husbands. This ruse works well enough in the case of Sir Jasper Fidget, who is only too glad to have such an apparently harmless gallant squire his wife around town, frequent her boudoir. But Mr. Pinchwife, who has brought an artless country wife to London and is in a fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally deciding to divert Horner from his wife by taking him his sister. Mrs. Pinchwife (Ruth Gordon...