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...Late George Apley. Ronald Colman and other skilled make-believe Bostonians in a pleasant adaptation of J. P. Marquand's satire (TIME, March...
...Late George Apley. Ronald Colman and other skilled make-believe Bostonians in a pleasant adaption of J. P. Marquand's satire (TIME, March...
...film might convince those who have never been exposed to the local setting that Boston might do with a corps of psycho analysts. Would that it would that simple. Like the city he lived in, the original George Apley was a creature of deep conflicts and inner restlessness. Ronald Colman does no better than an imitation of any neighborhood's damn fool...
...Apley clan is examined during a few months of 1912-13, when George (Ronald Colman) is badly upset because his son (Richard Ney) is in love with a Worcester girl. Worse still, his daughter (Peggy Cummins) wants to marry a Yale graduate who is telling his students at Harvard that
With little deadpan humor, the picture is full of obvious but fairly amusing jokes about the insularity of Boston patricians and of obvious, rather anachronistic japes about Freud. Ronald Colman has gentle grace in the title role; Edna Best as his wife and Percy Waram as a brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown...