Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gazed at the flowers, Vag began to attach tremendous importance to them, perhaps undue importance. Those tender petals had been the life work of Blaschka pere et fils. They had been publicized by Harvard and sanctified by royalty. And where were they? In a fire-trap if Vag had ever seen...
...deep drifts of artificial snow, cold storage poultry, painfully quaint mannerisms and hideously false joviality which load this tender fable, certain genuine bits stand out by contrast. One is Reginald Owen's well modulated performance as Scrooge, which should long remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least...
...true that I may be prejudiced since I learned at a very tender age that damnyankee is only one word and besides that, I am a descendant of the old "pirate." . . . In his behalf, please permit me to mention a few salient points...
...Young in Heart (Selznick International). Doddering Ellen Fortune (Minnie Dupree) is a tender-hearted eccentric who, from an unhappy romance in her youth, has derived the philosophy that the secret of happiness lies in trusting those one loves. The Carletons-card-sharping Colonel Anthony (Roland Young), mercenary Marmy (Billie Burke), fortune-hunting Rick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and gold-digging George-Ann (Janet Gaynor)-are a family of international rogues united strongly by their common belief in and proficiency at the more polite forms of mooching, chiseling and outright thievery...
...queen, whose throne brings her only disillusionment, loneliness, and finally death itself, is touching if over-favorable in its presentation. Unfortunately Tyrone Power, Miss Shearer's leading man, does not give her the support she deserves. His portrayal of Court Fersen is un convincing; in the emotional heights of tender love scenes, he appears stiff and wooden. What the film suffers in this respect, however, is more than compensated for by Robert Morley in his role as Louis XVI. This young actor does a masterful picturization of the loyal, but pathetically simple King, who would rather fashion wooden soldiers than...