Word: kathleen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Duke of Manchester's second wife, Kathleen Ethel Dawes Montagu, sued through the estate's trustees to get the Manchester jewels, furs and laces from his first wife Helena Zimmerman Montagu, the florid Duke told British reporters. "My trouble is that I've been a mug, always too trustful and willing...
...role in this garish adaptation of H. G. Wells's Island of Doctor Moreau had been entrusted to some one else, it might very well have emerged as a routine nightmare, notable mainly for the presence of Paramount's highly publicized but not particularly bestial "panther woman" (Kathleen Burke). Miss Burke, a Chicago dentist's assistant whose pointed face, sloping eyes, fuzzy hair and graceful physique won her the part against 60,000 other girls who entered Paramount's contest for it last summer, pads about the island with the dubious manner natural for an inexperienced...
Second Hand Wife (Fox). Kathleen Xorris, who wrote the novel on which this cinema is based, made an office girl's love for her boss interesting because the girl did not know that the boss's wife (Helen Vinson) had stopped loving her husband. So long as Hamilton MacFadden, who directed and adapted the picture, follows this simple theme, fair program entertainment results. But after Office Girl (Sally Eilers) has married Boss (Ralph Bellamy) the triangle is rearranged as a maudlin contest between Bellamy and Helen Vinson for custody of their violin-playing prodigy daughter (Karol...
...like that of a giraffe swallowing oranges. The first lump occurs when John Carteret (Leslie Howard) is found moping, at the turn of the century, in his handsome English garden. Disconsolate about a dead fiancee, he is reluctant to console himself by becoming foster-father to her orphaned niece Kathleen. The niece grows up into Norma Shearer and falls in love with a young American (Fredric March) who has come to England to enlist in the War. When Kathleen tells her foster-father the name of her admirer-Kenneth Wayne-the whole story comes out. Kenneth Wayne's father...
...Norma Shearer's part, immensely different from the ones she has lately played in parlor tragedies, is the one Norma Talmadge originated for the cinema in 1922. Miss Shearer performs it ably, a little less effectively in a blonde wig as Moonyeen than later as the grown-up Kathleen...