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The Tearjerker

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A few of the words

WEEPIE
The word is trade slang for a film built to make you cry. Studios openly made them for the women's matinee crowd.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
STELLA
Stella Dallas, a 1937 picture with Barbara Stanwyck, is the textbook case of a mother who gives up everything for her daughter. Stanwyck earned an Oscar nomination for it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
STATION
Waterloo Bridge (1940), with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor, hinges on a meeting and a farewell at a London railway station. Hollywood loved a platform goodbye.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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A free tearjerker word search for anyone who ever reached for a hankie at the pictures. Farewells at the station, letters left unsent.

About The Tearjerker

In the 1930s and 40s the big studios knew exactly what a Saturday audience wanted, and often it was a good cry. Warner Bros., MGM and Universal turned out melodramas full of devoted mothers and doomed romances, with a long goodbye on a foggy train platform if the budget allowed. Women's pictures were a real trade, and the strings swelled right on cue.

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