Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They said: "He has no friends. He is absolutely colorless. He is dumb...
Less obviously acted than most mystery movies, "Murder in Trinidad" manages to baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting...
...took a pencil and on the back of an envelope I wrote, 'What do you want?' and handed it to a big guy leading the crowd. He read it, then turned around and said, 'My God, boys, he's deaf and dumb...
Shut away in a Swiss sanatorium is the man the world once knew as the greatest of dancers. For months at a time he speaks no word. He still hears the echo of War guns. His dead, dumb eyes see soldiers dying around him. Sixteen years have passed since Vaslav Nijinsky danced in the U. S. But this winter the re-enact- ment of many of Nijinsky's great roles by the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe has aroused fresh talk of his genius (TIME, Jan. i). Next week will be published the story of Nijinsky's life, written...
Going to college does not help in a stage career any more than in any other; Miss Hopkins believes. "I have seen some very dumb people who made excellent actors," she said. "Don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that all actors are dumb. But the point is that it depends on your emotional make-up, not on your intelligence...