The musical Let Freedom Ring (1939) sets a newspaper owner (Nelson Eddy) against a ruthless railroad magnate, while Lady of the Tropics (1939) was a light romance starring Robert Taylor and Hedy Lamarr.
"It was always intended to be a fun ride, a light romance, a love story at the heart, and just a jolly good time," he told the Hollywood Reporter.
Reaching back to the Art Nouveau period, with its "greenery yallery" colors, its wild orchid patterns and its wistful decadence — but bouncing that against a previous Art Nouveau revival in the 1970s — this Gucci show had as much depth and variety in the decorative clothes as in the music, which ranged from light romance to grand opera.
'To me it's a movie about intimacy on all different levels,' says Ryan. Dressed in jeans and a slinky blouse, her wisp of a body reveals a generosity of cleavage that informs you she is not promoting a light romance.
Valentine and Proteus are bosom buddies in this light romance that begins in Verona.
Wodehouse began by writing public-school stories and then light romances.
In retrospect, my father felt, he might have fared better at a studio other than Warner Bros. — Paramount, perhaps, or Columbia, which released a lot of light romances.
Thus, she is much more tolerant of the brittleness of Nancy Mitford's relentlessly sophomoric light romances than the "mess" of James Baldwin's ambitious, wildly uneven "Another Country," perhaps because Mitford is always smoothly in control of her material, whereas Baldwin, trying to accomplish so much more, unquestionably is not.
Generally, dark lighting is associated with tragedy and bright lighting with romance or comedy, but overlighting gives ghastly or unearthly effects, as in the memory sequence at the beginning of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's Gycklarnas afton (1953; Sawdust and Tinsel, also called The Naked Night).
It was funny and furious, equally at home with hard themes as it was with light-hearted romance.
