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Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) is a story of Hollywood, mostly at its worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. A daring film by ordinary movie standards, it is the last collaborative fling by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder* at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...
Others retiring include: Thomas Lee Kelley, professor of Education, a joint author of the much used Standford Achievement Tests. Bremer Whidden Pond, Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture. Walter Eugene Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit. Kurt Hermann Thoma, Charles A. Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology. Langdon Warner, curator of the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum,Elizabeth Bangs Bryant, assistant curator of insects, and James Lawder Gamble, professor of Pediatrics
Miss Tatlock's Millions. Charles Brackett's sure fun from some questionable subjects; with John Lund and Barry Fitzgerald (TIME...
Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) gives Writer-Producer Charles Brackett another chance to practice his favorite sport of skating on dangerously thin ice. Brackett and his fellow worker Billy Wilder are virtually the only Hollywood practitioners, since the penalty for breaking through the ice is almost certain professional death. Brackett and Wilder have already managed to make movies around such dynamite-loaded topics as divorce, alcoholism, adultery-plus-murder, illegitimacy, the black market in Germany...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...