Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lodger (20th Century-Fox) is a shy, vaseline-voiced neuropathologist (Laird Cregar) who begins to puzzle his landlady (Sara Allgood) when he turns the pictures in his room against the walls. They are all pictures of actresses. The landlady's niece (Merle Oberon) is also an actress; she delights the habitues of London's late 19th Century music halls with her dilutions of the cancan. She wants to divert her aunt's shy lodger too. He is diverted so violently that everybody suddenly realizes that he is Jack the Ripper, the author of the series of murders...
Over Twenty-One (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Max Gordon). It was a dead cinch that in her maiden stage effort Ruth Gordon the playwright would be kind to Ruth Gordon the actress. It was less a cinch that she would also be kind to the audience. But though Over Twenty-One is a collection of comic swatches rather than something cut from whole cloth, it proves a lively evening...
...Over Twenty-One is decidedly vin Gordonaire, but it is smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...
...Cinemactress Garland, Embraceable You and Bidin' My Time become hits all over again, and the new But Not For Me sounds like another. Her presence is open, cheerful, warming. If she were not so profitably good at her own game, she could obviously be a dramatic cinema actress with profit...
...Louis B. Mayer, Greer soon found, was not a corporation. He loathed the show, but he liked Greer very much. Actress Garson had her stage career, to be sure. But had she ever seriously reflected on the immensely greater significance of the cinema? She thought she was not photogenic...