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...three were William Powell, Kay Francis and Ruth Chatterton. Most raucous was Paramount's excitement over losing Miss Chatterton. Warner Bros, were several times rumored to be ready to give her back but last week Cinemactress Chatterton was busy with her last Paramount picture (Tomorrow & Tomorrow), planned to begin work for Warner Bros...
There is no doubting that lately the roles assayed by Ruth Chatterton have been too much of a piece to afford a full display of her prowess, and it is too bad that at a time when she sadly needs cooperation she should be made the victim of a tenth-rate story. "The Magnificent Lie" tells of a shell-shocked soldier, who loses his sight years after the war, and believes that the actress he loved overseas has come to visit him. She hasn't, of course, and Miss Chatterton, as a singer in a low resort, undertakes to help...
...produced in the East, and both have women in the leading parts, and there's an end to likenesses. For one is a sparkling comedy, "Rebound", featuring the clever Ina Claire, and the other a dog-oared story, indifferently acted, named "The Magnificent Lie", in which a disappointing Ruth Chatterton fibs frequently although never with any degree of magnificence...
...finally comes to appreciate her sterling qualities. Then an automobile accident restores his sight. Perfunctory direction by Berthold Viertel, and the wooden way in which Ralph Bellamy plays the soldier make The Magnificent Lie seem trite and unmagnificent. The role of the cabaret girl was perhaps selected for Ruth Chatterton because it gave her a chance to display her overestimated versatility: she uses stock French mannerisms, hisses in a coquettish way when impersonating Duchene. Long publicized as "first lady of the cinema" Actress Chatterton has lately been the subject of Hollywood gossip. It was rumored that Warner Brothers had "stolen...
Ownership of Cinemactress Chatterton was a newsquestion of interest to more than the gumchewing public of chatter-chippies because, 1) she is so far the only famed female stage-star to make an even greater success in talkies than she had previously made on the stage; 2) she has probably made more successful talkies than any other cinemactress...