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Captains Courageous (Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy); Wake Up and Live (Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Alice Faye); The Prince and, the Pauper (Billy & Bobby Mauch, Errol Flynn); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way For Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt...
...Tomorrow makes a fortune for its producers, Hollywood can be expected to exhibit amazement. No amazement is in order. Taking a subject about which everyone has speculated—the financial insecurity of old age—the picture examines the case of Barkley Cooper (Victor Moore) and his wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina Delmar from Josephine Lawrence's novel, directed by Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap), the story is presented with rare cinematic honesty. It is acted by Victor Moore, in his first serious cinema role, and seasoned Beulah Bondi, with that effortless perfection which, because it can come...
...President Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) form a pattern which balances in entertainment whatever it may lack in educational value. Surrounded by youthful matinee idols who seem a shade too chipper in the roles of mature statesmen, Lionel Barrymore grunts, glares and snuffles to fine effect. Equally sure-fire is Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Rachel Jackson, who, about to expire of the miseries, charges Peggy with seeing that the President remembers...
...jury which frees her seems to believe that Mrs. Ames (Madeleine Carroll) shot and killed her rich husband. An assistant district attorney (George Brent) is so convinced of it that he denounces the jury, gets jailed for contempt of court. Mrs. Ames's dowager mother-in-law (Beulah Bondi) makes the murder a pretext for taking possession of Mrs. Ames's small son. Acting from thoroughly scrambled motives, the assistant district attorney performs some sleuthing while the not particularly bright young widow makes a mess of acting as her own counsel in a court battle...
Next day Australian editors pointed out that Melbourne moppets do not romp in the middle of the night; that at 1 a. m., Australian time, there may be moonbathing but not sunbathing on Bondi Beach. After denouncing the obvious fake (apparently achieved by playing phonograph records in London), Australian papers indicated, characteristically, that they might have been prepared to forgive all had not the description of Bondi the Beautiful, the Pearl of Australia, been so "unspeakably puerile...