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Fortunately for Spellbound, Bergman smuggles her pathological hero upstate to her teacher and friend-cantankerous old Dr. Michael Chekhov (actor-director nephew of the late, great Anton) who resembles a kindly Sigmund Freud and so expertly milks his lines for humor that he steals scene after scene from Bergman's tense seriousness and Peck's dazed somnambulism...
Emil Jennings, back in U.S. pictures with a difference, was photographed at his villa in St. Wolfgang, Austria, as he played a familiar role for a new audience. To Allied questioners, the top-ranking Nazi actor-director explained that he made an anti-British film because Goebbels forced him to. Jannings, who once specialized at playing disintegrating old men, was beginning to look the part...
Orson Welles recuperated with Rita Hayworth Welles (see cut) at Miami Beach-he from jaundice, she from the flu. Restless Actor-Director Welles said he had definitely added politics to his interests, reminded the press that he was Chairman of the Action Committee of the American Free World Association...
...Dere as an aging maiden aunt is a bit different from the sophisticated authoress she played last week, more in the vein of here three-year "Tobacco Road" part, but still good. The rest of the cast is capable, with actor-director Bob Perry playing well Dorothy Lambert handling a finicky mother part adequately, and Louise Valery making a nice finance to inventor-mechanic Richard Hart...
Married. Musicomedienne Mitzi Green, 21, onetime child movie star; and Actor-Director Joseph Pevney, 30; in Manhattan...