Word: temptress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playing is more intelligible than the play. Glenn Anders is splendidly desperate as the groping youth and Claudette Colbert not only plays the temptress with a true earthiness but is, in addition, one of the most beautiful pictures in this season's gallery. Dudley Digges gives to the atheist his usual excellent sense of values...
...Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly, is careful with his money and reads Shakespeare. He dislikes romantic roles and thinks the best picture he ever played in was The Big Parade...
...upon the heroine. Now, in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane, a polite comedy by one Harry Segall, he is called upon to act the part of Bruce King, just one of those men whom women cannot forget. The women, to be sure, are only two; Mrs. Crane and the temptress who has stolen her husband. Since wily Mrs. Crane has promised to give Mr. Crane his freedom in case he can find her a fitting successor to himself and since the appealing and wealthy Mr. King has been introduced with this end in view, it is right & fair that...
...Woman of the World. Pola Negri in a light comedy is unusual. The light comedy is only fairly comic, which is rather more usual. She plays a European temptress who pounces down upon a small Iowa town and quite disrupts the population, including the stalwart and belligerent sheriff...
...stupid is the current young society is once more pulled out of hiding and brushed off for inspection. To make matters worse, it is taken very seriously. There is just one flash of inspiration when the very sweet daughter of the household suddenly turns out to be the temptress...