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...Hollywood Story (Universal-International) is a very poor man's Sunset Boulevard. Like its predecessor it shows the Hollywood of the present poking into the Hollywood past, with the movie great at work and at play, and screen oldtimers (Francis X. Bushman, Helen Gibson, William Farnum) as they look today. But the new movie is a formula whodunit without benefit of suspense, characterization, or anything else except some superficial Hollywood atmosphere...
Unlike Sunset Boulevard, its pale counterpart stirs no emotion and avoids any commentary on the manners & morals of Hollywood, past or present. But it courts some unanticipated resentment and unwitting pathos in the exploitation of the faded oldtimers whom it uses as trophy-like props to dress up a few brief scenes...
...Hills (11 miles), take Route 9 to Westbore (21 miles), switching southward on Route 20 to Sturbridge (26 miles), switch south again on route 15 to East Hartford (30 miles). Take the last turnoff before the Charter Oak toll bridge on Main Street, East Hartford. Turn left on Connecticut Boulevard (Route 44). Stay on Route 44 to Canton (16 miles). Switch to Route 4 through Torrington to Sharon (42 miles). Take Route 343 to Amenia, New York (5 miles), then 44 again to Raymond Avenue stoplight (24 miles). Turn left on Raymond and proceed to the main gate of Vassar...
...first movie from Producer Charles (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend) Brackett since Paramount split his partnership with Billy Wilder, The Mating Season is a disappointment. Among its contrivances, it tries to palm off Lund as a sympathetic character, an effort that fails despite the script's broad, last-minute gestures. Star Ritter gets most of her help from Actress Hopkins' expert playing of a bitchy lady of quality. There is also a surprisingly animated performance by Gene Tierney...
Spirit of the Enemy. Back in his house on the Boulevard Gambetta in Hanoi that night, Commander in Chief de Lattre said: "The spirit of the man who leads the enemy is the kind of spirit which means it to be a great battle." As for his own spirit, De Lattre pointed to a huge situation map: "I will use my air. I will use my artillery. I will use my infantry. Perhaps after having tasted it for another day, the enemy will say 'enough.' I am sure we will...