Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...appearances in British films. Unfortunately, the Empire touch has passed lightly over just the asset of No, No, Nanette which pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...
...comedy of "Lady In Waiting" has far less to do with Margery Sharp than with Miss George for its author deals in situations rather than barbed lines. And it is these situations where Gladys George takes over and makes us eat out of her hand. She can be coy and bawdy in one breath, charming and hussyish in another, and yet beneath it all she breathes an enticing exuberance and unaffectedness that attracts the dignified and wealthy Sir William Warring...
...Esquire. The locker-room delight of the defiantly A. W. 0. L., white-collar U. S. male, Esquire has made itself the house organ of all brands of U. S. adolescence, its most interesting single product drawings of cellophane-glossed girls by George Petty. Despite its coy title. The Bedside Esquire contains no art-teasers; it is solid print. Among the 77 items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious...
Flattering, if coy, is Foreigner Fabrès' reason for visiting the U. S. Says...
...this has been transformed by the magic eye of the camera and the Hollywood touch. As a film, The Primrose Path has become a problem picture with false notes from Steinbeck. Grandma (Queenie Vassar) still likes it carnal, is still a coy and bawdy frump, still gets...