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Word: prettiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shearer and John Gilbert put on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet; Marie Dressier sings and prances around. Sometimes slapstick turns into comedy, sometimes comedy trails off into slapstick. The Hollywood Revue is not sophisticated but it is good entertainment. Best song: 'Singing in the Rain.' Prettiest girl: Joan Crawford. Silliest shot: Jack Benny covered with icing from the cake. Best shot: Marie Dressier imitating Marie of Rumania. To publicize the film in Manhattan, a smart manager put up a "human billboard" of flesh-&-blood chorus girls outside the theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Mary Nolan, plays satirically and deftly as the blonde girl who brings about the inconstancy of the constant wife's husband. Best shot: The ladies mouthing epigrams at tea. Imogene Wilson's long eyelashes, big blue eyes, white skin, ash-blonde hair made her one of the prettiest children in the village

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...celebrate last week. Dark-haired, demure Lisl Goldarbeiter, a true and typical Wiener Mädel (Viennese girl), had been chosen "Miss Universe"? winner of the Galveston, Tex., International Beauty Contest. From Schubert to Schnitzler, Austrian composers and writers have insisted that Viennese girls are the world's prettiest. Here were the sober judges of Galveston in obvious agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lovely Lisl | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...scene, Vienna of the 1840's, is tastefully laid out and the soldiers' uniforms and sweeping gowns of the ladies of the ensemble have much to do with making the picture fetching. The lighting effect at the opening of the last act achieves one of the prettiest results the Boston stage has witnessed...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

Solemnly Death came last week to Athanase Vagliano, on the golden Riviera at minute, lovely Roquebrune. Everyone of the smart world has at least passed the place. As your "Blue Train" from Paris halts momentarily at Monte Carlo and then chuffs on to Menton, the prettiest station through which it speeds, the one with the neatest garden and the fairest palms, is Roquebrune. In the great house just visible through dense foliage lived ''The Greek," Europe's "Prince of Gamblers," and there he died?rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Enemy of Women | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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