Word: loveless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melancholy. Oliver's father married only from a sense of duty, spends most of his time on his yacht, drifting about the world, while occasional intimations of his paganism and vice reach Great Falls, Conn., to scandalize the family and cloud the contentment of his wife. In a loveless household Oliver grows up, excels at games and studies without exerting himself, does not begin to live until, at the age of 17, his father carries him away on his yacht...
Whether Leonardo had loved Isabella, he could not say. But he felt he could say that Leonardo, usually rated an isolated, loveless psychotic whose appearance of amiable charm was false, had loved Sforza's mistress, Cecilia Gallerani, Countess Bergamo. Leonardo might also have loved Isabella...
Specifically, then, under Cinema, p. 45, The Painted Veil, your premises are that 1) Mrs. Fane's marriage was loveless and ignoble at the time of her arrival in Hong Kong; 2) She committed adultery; and 3) Her marriage was neither loveless nor ignoble at the conclusion of the picture. From these premises you conclude that "the picture . . . can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cure-all." In other words, since the marriage was happier after the adultery, it was happier because of the adultery...
...Fane's relations with her husband had remained as they were when she first arrived in Hongkong, hers would have been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers...
...formula for spy stories is always the same, regardless of the war used. Gail Loveless (Marion Davies) meets Jack Gaillard (Gary Cooper) first in Martinsburg, where she is painted as an octoroon. She sees him next at Richmond where she is functioning as a Southern belle. By this time the audience is well aware that Loveless and Gaillard are information agents, he for the South, she for the North. The scene in which Marion Davies says "I love you so" is promptly followed by the one in which a Confederate soldier informs Gary Cooper that she is a spy. Then...