Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half. Jeanine Basinger
My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
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Cassandra Clare
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
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Amit Kalantri
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being...
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Unknown
Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be...
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Suzy Kassem
More Quotes By Jeanine Basinger
Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.
Joanne Woodward’s Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.
Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.
Excellent films do exist on the subject, however, and one is a pure marriage movie in which Newman and Woodward make it work. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge exists to tell moviegoers that the marriage of their parents–especially if they were those tragic dogsbodies, Midwesterners–were fogbound....
When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions
