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...Sunday Afternoon (Warner) is an old story with its face lifted for the third time.* At this point, it wears a starchy mask, and its smiles creak painfully. It is an idyl of the Gay Nineties, and the costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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