Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a frightened young woman (Olivia de Havilland) arrives with a fluttery story about a wrecked coach, Garrick accepts her as part of the plot, grandly surrenders his rooms to her. While he feigns concern for her safety and distress during the continued ructions, he decides she is a very bad actress. Later he tells her so, then beats the French at their own game, by impersonating one of their members. When he reveals himself there are mutual apologies and gallant toasts all round; but the girl has fled. In Paris he looks for her backstage, discovers that, sure enough...
Telling the story of a lady of disrepute who leaps from the oblivion of a Hollywood dive to the magnificence of a Hollywood winter resort, "The Bride Wore Red" gives itself away almost before it starts, so obvious is the plot. In fact the film's greatest asset is the fact that it suffers no illusions as to its own importance. Pleasantly it wends its way, and pleasantly it will affect the cinematic taste of the semi-sentimental moviegoer...
...destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind up to. In Double Wedding the melee is Charlie's wedding to Irene, staged in his trailer home, which turns into a wedding to Margit...
...singers of "Naughty Marietta" be it said that their voices in glory make this one of those "rare pictures which can be seen and enjoyed many times." For the story, there is a loyalty to the plot of the original play, but any plot is here unimportant, merely occupying the time between songs. For the flaws, if one is to be picked, it would probably find itself in the uneven character of Mr. Eddy's acting; other supporting roles are handled well if not brilliantly...
...character of a handsome young page who acts as Marie's loyal escort, the author furnishes an eye-witness to scenes left out of histories. The page overhears the conversation in which Talleyrand double-crosses Napoleon with the emissaries of Russia and Austria. He and Marie uncover the plot to put Murat on the French throne; as courier to Napoleon in Spain, he sits in on long conversations between Napoleon and his intimates (partly taken from the Emperor's speeches in the Russian campaign, three years after the story's close...