Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What a Change. Igor makes a great play of not being a snob. Sample: "I have just emerged from an air-conditioned suite of the Park Towers, where I was locked for 45 sacred minutes with their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
...Belton son-&-heir. "There won't be a single gentleman in the Cabinet in five years," groused the Squire. "Well, I do hope my son-in-law and daughters-in-law will be our sort." murmured Mrs. Belton wistfully. "I suppose I'm a perfectly beastly snob," said her pretty daughter Elsa, "but I can't help...
Miss Young is wholly incapable of catching the wretched undertones which hum between her fiancé (Barry Sullivan) and her sister (Susan Hayward), who love each other. She is also a born snob, insensitive to the rumblings of proletarian Shantytown as conveyed by her doctor, who was born there and will never forgive her for it. Since the doctor spends most of his time snarling at her, as she can readily discern by reading his lips, she is perhaps less to be blamed for not realizing that he loves...
...Samuel Hoare. "It is appalling that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob, after being Air Minister, Secretary for India, Foreign Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, should have been, installed at last in Madrid as the spokesman of the democracies. . . . No need to wish to harm him. He is what Britain made him. His proper job now is to be a gossip correspondent for a smart newspaper...
...passenger list includes: a cynical journalist (John Garfield), a high-society snob (Isobel Elsom), her humble husband (Gilbert Emery), a golddigger (Faye Emerson), a country clergyman (Dennis King), a merchant mariner (George Tobias), an industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond...