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Charles Boyer knows that a certain actress died with a fortune in jewels hidden away in her attic, and a beautiful daughter hidden away in Italy studying coloratura soprano. Killing two birds with one stone, he sweeps the beautiful daughter off her feet, marriages her, and goes back with her to her childhood home in London in which, you guessed it, the jewels are hidden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...wants to drive this charming wife crazy by making her think his searching footsteps in the attic are only figments of her imagination, is hard to understand. Maybe he wants to get Miss Bergman out of the way so he can marry Leslie Brooks, the pert chambermaid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...rate, he doesn't succeed, and he's the one who is put out of the way-- by the hero sleuth, John Cotten. Cotten really goes for Bergman, and when he tracks down Bad-Man Boyer in the corner of the attic, just in the act of putting the snatch on the jewels, he lets him have it. No more Boyer. And Master Cotten is left with Bergman all to himself. And they no doubt live happily ever after. It's just as simple as that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...dashed toward Paris, French soldiers lay by the roadside, nursing bloody feet which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice of her dead radical father, urging her to do likewise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter Day Saint | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Then she slipped quietly back to her attic to read some more about Joan. The Maid, Simone noted, had not been put to death by the English invaders, but by 15th-Century French quislings. Soon Si mone found herself in the same fix. A haughty Marquis, the town's political boss, kept a collaborationist eye on her. Her Uncle Planchard was furious with her too, because of the gasoline tanks. Simone was arrested and, like Joan, lost her nerve, signed a confession. But when courage returned, Simone repudiated her confession, gallantly went off to Burgundy's most ruthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter Day Saint | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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