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...illustrator of children's books. His little outfit, said Troy, had been operating for a couple of years (without advertising). Among its satisfied clients, he said, without naming any, have been military men, Government officials, doctors, businessmen and art students, as well as a Wall Street broker who commissioned an entire exhibition in order to break into "arty circles." Obviously, said Troy, he could not reveal the names of his staff artists, but he identified them as three painters, a sculptor and a Saturday Evening Post cover artist who enjoys doing abstractions in his off hours. "I know what...
...Vegas Story (RKO Radio] must have been easy for Jane Russell because she has done so many movies just like it. This time, Jane arrives in Las Vegas as the discontented wife of Vincent Price, a near-bankrupt broker who hopes to remake his fortune at the dice tables. To Jane, the visit is one long remembrance of things past, for it was in Las Vegas that she loved and left Victor Mature, a local policeman. In their big confrontation scene, Jane delicately dilates her nostrils and Victor clenches his jaw so hard that his ears wiggle, thus making...
...shortages were discovered only because the Spellmans expanded so fast that they didn't have enough cash to pay their bills. When a Chicago grain broker tried to collect by attaching their property...
...Model and the Marriage Broker (20th Century-Fox) defaults on a promising idea: a down-to-earth professional matchmaker, played by tart Thelma Ritter, at large among the lonelyhearts. Random glimmers of a good spoof on courtship and marriage mores get lost in an overplotted movie that strains for pathos when it is not straining for laughs...
While trying to bring love, or at least marriage, into her clients' lives, Broker Ritter develops a motherly interest in flighty Model Jeanne Grain, decides to match her on the sly (and at no charge) with another acquaintance, X-ray Technician Scott Brady. Each of the pair misconstrues the other's motives, andThelma's as well. What should be plain to all is that Ingenue Grain needs an acting refresher course and able Comedienne Ritter deserves a better script...