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The other stars--Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor, and Audrey Totter--perform their bit parts adequately and usually evoke additional pathos. But the only tears really worth shedding are for Wald and Krasna, who wasted so much talent on such an incredibly trite plot.
James Barton is likable, whether quietly singing, dancing a soft shoe or carrying on as a drunk. Hollywood's Olga San Juan has a nice Broadway bounce. Agnes de Mille has worked out some attractively obstreperous and even orgiastic dances. And the best of Composer
Bargain. In Chillicothe, Mo., while Mrs. Agnes Tharp was selling clothes at a charity benefit sale, an enterprising fellow charity worker sold Mrs. Tharp's own coat for $1.
The current production, the first ever to reach Broadwav. is all the more noteworthy for its distinguished cast-Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead. Standing in evening clothes in front of mikes, they merely read the scene with an apparent absence of acting that conceals a great...
Along the way, while their heroine sacrifices herself for others, Wald & Krasna sacrifice such able players as Agnes Moorehead, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Everett Sloane and Cyril Cusack to the tear-stained demands of the plot. By the time a disenchanted moviegoer may have concluded that the long-suffering governess...