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Helen Brown Norden

Helen Brown Norden's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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EDIT “To us oldsters, with the memory of Douglas Fairbanks, the elder, ever green in our hearts, Abel's performance is a little too impetuously boyish... In fact, none of the cast was quite glamorous or gallant enough for me.” – Vanity Fair Jun 15, 2019 Full Review The Melody Lingers On (1935) EDIT “[It has] what should be an excellent cast -- Helen Westley, Laura Hope Crewes, William Harrigan, John Halliday and Mona Barrie, in addition to Miss Hutchinson -- but they don't seem lo he able to do much, as they are always falling over the plot.” – Vanity Fair Jun 15, 2019 Full Review Bachelor of Arts (1934) EDIT “An incredible little offering which shows you life as it certainly never could be in a co-educational university.” – Vanity Fair Jun 15, 2019 Full Review Enter Madame (1935) EDIT “[Enter Madame] forces upon me the regrettable conclusion that Miss Landi is not, and probably never has been, a very good actress.” – Vanity Fair Jun 15, 2019 Full Review Under the Pampas Moon (1935) EDIT “There are two exciting horse races, one very good song, and a marvelously comic performance by Soledad Jimenez.” – Vanity Fair Jun 15, 2019 Full Review Nell Gwyn (1934) EDIT “It seems to me that [Anna Neagle] has caught the spirit of the role and carried it off with honors.” – Vanity Fair Jun 14, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The story for this one was taken from the novel of the same name by Elisabeth Cobb, Irvin S. Cobb's daughter. I don't know how good the original was, but the plot is certainly a phoney.” – Vanity Fair Jun 14, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Why they ever cast Elissa Landi as a Broadway fly-girl --and let her British accent struggle with 42nd Street slang -- is another of those fascinating Hollywood daily mysteries.” – Vanity Fair Jun 14, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Now [Fox has] had the courage to translate Richard Aldington's fine novel, All Men Are Enemies, to the screen. They have not been so successful with this one, but we must still admire their spirit.” – Vanity Fair Jun 14, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The crime may be perfect, but the picture is not.” – Vanity Fair Jun 14, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Warner has dignity to his finger tips, even when he is scrubbing floors and rustling trunks up and down stairs -- a gentleman of the old school, by Gad, sir -- and it is nice to see him again.” – Vanity Fair Jun 14, 2019 Full Review Wild Cargo (1934) EDIT “After the first ten water buffalo, they all begin to look alike.” – Vanity Fair Jun 14, 2019 Full Review The New Gulliver (1935) EDIT “The Russian puppet picture, [The New Gulliver], with 3,000 puppets in the cast, is the most amazing thing you've ever seen.” – Vanity Fair Jun 13, 2019 Full Review Anne of Green Gables (1934) 83% EDIT “Much to my surprise, the picture, saccharine with sentiment though it is, is not really so hard to take after all.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) EDIT “The result is an entertaining and credible picture.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review The President Vanishes (1934) EDIT “The picture ends with an incredible solution, but not until you have sat through some of the most exciting reels the cinema realm has to offer.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The film is the most stirring, from a dramatic point of view, of any of the recent Soviet ones, and it is brilliantly acted, with great vitality and a moving power.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review Caravan (1934) EDIT “[Director Erik Charell's] handling of mass scenes is superb. There is not a moment of heaviness in them. Everything moves in a rhythmic line; and there are moments of surprising charm and beauty.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review The Last Gentleman (1934) EDIT “The picture has one really hilarious and unexpected bit of farce [which] stands as a great relief to the rest of the film, which is pretty much a stock affair.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review The Pursuit of Happiness (1934) EDIT “The picture has been intelligently directed; it is quite consistently entertaining; and it has, as I have said, the ingratiating Mr. Lederer in a part well tailored to his talents, including his gift for comedy.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review Anna Karenina (1935) 86% EDIT “There seems more of anguish and more of sombre depth in this version than there was in the old silent film (with Garbo and John Gilbert). Garbo acts with a dignity and a bitter passion.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review Top Hat (1935) 100% EDIT “While personally I didn't think it was quite so swell as The Gay Divorcee or Roberta, it is still about ten times better than am musical that hasn't got Fred Astaire in it. The man is a maniac when he starts to dance.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review The Dark Angel (1935) 94% EDIT “The picture has been Avell directed and photographed, and it is really much more effective and moving than this synopsis might indicate.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review I Live My Life (1935) 40% EDIT “I liked the last Joan Crawford picture, Live My Life, more than any other which she has made in a long time.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review Transatlantic Tunnel (1935) EDIT “Only occasionally a vehicle of mild excitement.” – Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019 Full Review
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