Word: facials
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...attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
Ronald Colman makes a number of facial expressions for a satisfactory performance. He is well supported by such as Jane Wyatt, John Howard, Edward Everett Horton, excellent photography, and a unique beginning...
...lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke was a young and dashing Prince of Wales...
...farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter hours The Good Earth runs, Actress Rainer manages to make her every thought and action as clear as crystal. Silently she fosters Wang's yearning for more land, shields him from his sycophant uncle (Walter Connolly). In one of the screen...
...company can do by spending its money on good actors and good writing instead of big names, ponderous sets and over-pretentious publicity. Good shot: Johnny Cave's ex-prizefighter, ex-bootlegger pal (Edward Brophy) amicably welcoming a dowager into his house by complimenting her on how much facial surgery has improved her appearance...