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...Louis Calhern and Ann Harding give good performances as the Justice and his wife. But there is little they can do to keep mawkishness from seeping into many of the scenes (Holmes paces slowly over old battleground, murmurs things about good men on both sides, while muted brasses play a retarded "Battle Hymn of the Republic.") "The Magnificent Yankee' is dilutely pleasant entertainment. A life of Holmes would lead one to expect more...
King Lear, with Louis Calhern in the title role, has been successfully, if elaborately, revived. (National...
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...Great Dissenter" (well played, as on Broadway, by Louis Calhern-see THEATER) emerges a gruff but amiable gaffer, quietly and steadily outsmarted by a devoted wife (Ann Harding), whom he showers with courtly attentions. He loves his country, his profession, the smell of spring and (deep down) the Harvard Law School honor graduates who come each year to serve as his secretaries and "sons...
...earlier years by loading the dialogue with the kind of exposition-heavy lines that are never spoken in real life. In its favor, The Magnificent Yankee offers some mildly affecting scenes, a Sunday-best M-G-M production and a spirited, if somewhat theatrical, performance by Actor Calhern...