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...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...
...civic organization run on a real business-like basis, they innaugurated last year a series of gala cocktail parties where they managed to peddle $40,000 worth of shares to some 3,000 interested citizens. ANTA did its bit by sending celebrities up from New York to brighten the dark corners of the parties while preaching the Cause...
...taming of these once adventurous spirits is mildly depressing to watch. When the plot borders on the dreary, Director George Sidney and Scenarist Robert Ardrey brighten things up with more shots of Dancer Kelly's graceful gymnastics. Since the musketeers never fight at odds of less than 20 to 1 (against them, of course) they have an uphill job unraveling the intrigues of the Queen of France (Angela Lansbury), the Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) and the unctuous Richelieu (Vincent Price...
...last word came from one Franca Giustiniani, a Roman café society belle. "I am so happy," she cried when she heard that Dewey had been duly nominated. "He is a Republican and his wife is so good-looking. It will brighten the picture at official functions...
...contemporary newsman reported that Daumier looked like one of his own cruelest caricatures, "but if one . . . tries to penetrate this bourgeois shell, the features soon brighten into life. That little eye with its heavy lid, half-closed in perpetual winking, thrusts at you its clear sharp look . . . even his nose seems to enjoy the observations he has just made...