Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Melvyn Douglas and Norma Shearer should have shared some of their fun with the audience. Dancing through the hearts, not to mention the pocketbooks, of the befuddled rich must have been a lot of fun; it couldn't have been as dull in life as it was in film. The featured stars didn't seem to have much trouble supporting themselves by entertaining society, but if their real life subsistence depends on the popularity of "We Were Dancing" Mr. Douglas better keep his next government job and Miss Shearer better get married...
Deglamorization of the week was performed by an alert news photographer at Sun Valley, who caught the handsome face of Cinemactress Norma Shearer registering desolation after she had missed a clay pigeon...
This Cowardly travesty is prittle-prattled by Princess Vicki Wilomirska (Norma Shearer), a penniless Polish refugee, and Baron Nicki Prax (Melvyn Douglas), a penniless Viennese. He aptly describes himself as "a tramp in a white tie"-a professional weekend guest; she is a well-set-up young woman looking for a U.S. millionaire. So they fall in love, marry, live off his rich socialite acquaintances, divorce, remarry after he has become an interior decorator...
Tailor-made for Miss Shearer, who has been off the screen for a year, Dancing is a costly, embarrassing picture, whose mood and manners are both dated and false...
Smilin' Through (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a lachrymose, sticky, super-sentimental romance conceived and acted by Jane Cowl for the post-war U.S. of 1919. Cinematized, it was played by Norma Talmadge in 1922, by Norma Shearer in 1932. Its present revival differs from its predecessors in one respect: Technicolor...