mad miss manton造句

• In the next two years Mercer made eight more movies, including " The Mad Miss Manton " opposite Barbara Stanwyck.
• ""'The Mad Miss Manton " "'is a 1938 American screwball comedy and mystery film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Barbara Stanwyck as fun-loving socialite Melsa Manton and Henry Fonda as newspaper editor Peter Ames.
• Among the pleasures of watching this series closely is noting its dense permutations, as familiar teams turn up in unfamiliar settings ( Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck of " The Lady Eve " also in " The Mad Miss Manton, " this time as a newspaper editor and spoiled heiress investigating a murder ).
• In her brief but busy career in Hollywood, she made nine films, including " The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle " with Rogers and Fred Astaire; " The Mad Miss Manton " with Barbara Stanwyck; " Beauty for the Asking " with Lucille Ball; and " Society Lawyer " with Walter Pidgeon.
• Normally, this kind of play would be done with lots of stylistic flourishes; the kind you still see in Noel Coward revivals and in those 1930s movies that leaven romantic comedy with plots taken from family melodramas and urban thrillers; movies like " Holiday " or " The Mad Miss Manton " or the " Thin Man " series.
• Such elitist extravagances might make a screwball series sound like a diet of meringue, or worse : These films can be insulting in their use of ethnic stereotypes, from the amazingly politically incorrect Pocahontas in " Nothing Sacred " to the patronized black servants in all those Park Avenue penthouses . ( Hattie McDaniel makes a feisty exception in " The Mad Miss Manton . ")
• You'll see her joking with Gable in " Saratoga, " exchanging barbs with Jean Harlow in " Libeled Lady, " throwing water in Henry Fonda's face in " The Mad Miss Manton, " serving dinner to Katharine Hepburn in " Alice Adams " and breaking out of her mammy box with a dramatic turn in 1942's " In This Our Life ."