Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second picture, May Robson makes herself one of the silliest, most absurdly anti-social, hard-old-women we have ever seen, and her softening up in the end is terrible in its sentimentality. If, as the University's blurb-sheet says, the part "fits her like a glove," Miss Robson can't be the grand old lady we like to think her. She ends by adopting a bunch of going children as crazy as herself...
...owned by an irresponsible person with a soft baritone voice (Cliff Edwards), almost becomes a passable imitation of It Happened One Night, degenerates on their arrival into a tedious display of Red-baiting, climaxed when the soldier breaks up the meeting at which the radical is making a speech. Silliest shot: Robert Young pointing to a U. S. flag tattooed on his forearm...
...briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which he is the plaintiff's attorney, she refuses to divulge to whom Boles's wife's lover was sending daily orchids...
...plaint is not that you picked Roosevelt . . . but that your reasons for doing so were the silliest that have ever blotted TIME'S pages. You picked Roosevelt, because, forsooth, more people than ever before voted the straight Democratic ticket. Why . . . didn't you say simply that you picked Roosevelt as ''Man of the Year" because, in spite of the tremendous pressure under which he labored, he has remained the same cultured, affable, and above all, sane gentleman that was elected President in 1932, and who during 1934 has done his level best to pull the country...
...they are supposed to be the greatest backfield in the U. S. The clowning of Leo Carrillo and Ted Healy. each of whom sets fire to the seat of the other's pants, does not save The Band Plays On from being worse than most of its kind. Silliest shot: Betty Furness telling her fiance, Robert Young, that he must continue college because as soon as he becomes a lawyer they will have plenty of money. The Mighty Barnum (Twentieth Century) introduces its hero (Wallace Beery) as the proprietor of a Manhattan general store, busily trading lightning rods...