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...Technicolored pastiche of symbolism, the supernatural and old romantic claptrap. Filmed picturesquely in Spain by Coproducer-Scripter-Director Albert Lewin, the movie begins by pairing a modem Pandora (Ava Gardner) with the legendary Dutchman himself (James Mason). From there it goes on to bullfighting, reincarnation, suicide, auto-racing, murder, archaeology, an insistent verse by Omar Khayyam and a couple of interacting love triangles...
...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...
Armed with a convenient $900,000 inheritance, Ava bribes her rakish ne'er-do-well of a cousin (Melvyn Douglas) to break up Mitchum's home by seducing his wife (Janis Carter)-a job Douglas seems perfectly willing to attempt without pay. But, on the point of success, Douglas accidentally kills his quarry. Mitchum, suspected of doing his wife in, can be saved only by Ava's last-minute confession of her foul scheme...
Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, separated from wife No. 8, vowed his next would be "a wise, mature woman, someone like Ava Gardner, or Paulette Goddard." Meanwhile, Manville said he was using his spare time planning a new question & answer television show on the problems of modern living...
After due thought, the National Association of Women Artists decided that America's "most stimulating faces" included: Ernest Hemingway, whose face "proclaims, 'I've hair on my chest'"; Cinemactress Ava Gardner, whose face "stimulates desire" and "has the potential explosiveness of the H-bomb"; the New York Yankees' Catcher Yogi Berra, who "stimulates women's subconscious yearning for the Neanderthal man" with "the most down-to-earth face in America...