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...White House, The President Vanishes, Private Worlds, Shanghai), has never before included a piece deliberately designed, as this one is, for the supporting half of double bills. People with sharp eyes who have seen Shanghai may recognize a set or two cleverly redecorated and shot from new angles. (Boyer's apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass...
Shanghai (Paramount) is a soberly sentimental treatise upon the inconveniences of racial intermarriage in which Dmitri Koslov (Charles Boyer), son of a Manchu Princess and a Russian nobleman, makes diffident love to a visiting U. S. heiress (Loretta Young) among the bars and drawing rooms of Shanghai's European colony. Assiduous cinemaddicts, who have seen it emphasized in 75% of all previous geographic problem plays, should experience small difficulty in assimilating the moral of the picture, implicit in the scene in which Dmitri and his heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap...
That Shanghai is both less informative and less exciting than the article in Fortune which suggested it to Producer Walter Wanger is not the fault of Actor Boyer. He functions with his usual skill, contrives to make Dmitri that most familiar of cinema anomalies, a plausible individual surrounded by implausible events. Good shot : the board room of a broker's office with customers in evening dress waiting for the market to open in New York...
...back, he experiences the same symptoms, with overtones of rudeness, egomania and, finally, prostration. The only thing that makes these developments, usually reserved for pictures aimed at double bills, remarkable in Break of Hearts, is that herein they are the vehicle for two such Hollywood celebrities as Charles Boyer and Katharine Hepburn...
...heroine of Little Women, Miss Hepburn makes it clear that unless her employers see fit to restore her to roles in keeping with her mannerisms, these will presently annoy cinemaddicts into forgetting that she is really an actress of great promise and considerable style. As the orchestra leader, Charles Boyer manages to make the defeat which he receives from his material comparatively graceful. Worst shot: the hero telling the heroine how little he has loved the mistresses whose photographs hang in his living room...