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...until after they [left] that they were messengers of God . . .", Oursler drew a modern parallel. He told how George C. Boldt, a Philadelphia hotel man, once surrendered his own room to an elderly stranger and his wife, two years later had the kindness repaid when the stranger (William Waldorf Astor) made him manager of Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
Ryan is a determined, calculating pursuer: Heflin is a frightened--later desperate--pursued. Both are excellent and get fine female support from Janet Leigh (Mrs. Enley). Phyllis Thaxter (Parkson's girl), and Mary Astor, who picks up Enley in a bar and eventually leads him to his inevitable, and perhaps just, doom...
Atlantic-shuttling Lady Astor, visiting Jesse Jones in Houston, dropped in on Fort Worth, found its huge Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant the thrill of her trip. She would much rather pitch in and work there, she said, than in the British plane factory where she did a wartime stint...
...Universal Production, James Stewart and Eddie Albert crash their cargo plane in a southwestern wilderness. While Joan Fontaine consoles a distraught monkey in one end of the plane and an escaped embezzler lies petrified in the other, Albert informs Stewart, "You don't look very happy." Stewart and the Astor audience, had nothing to be happy about at that point or at any other in the movie...
...tomboy Jo. She has a refreshing breeziness and bounce which make the old tale believable and now & then lift it right out of its tatted frame. Other notable performances are Margaret O'Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Lucille Watson. The whole package is so richly wrapped in romantic period sets and costumes that the final shot is unnecessary: a pastel, picture-postcard rainbow rises out of the subsiding suds and sentiments to arch the happy ending...