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...Colman's life with Anna Lee is pure nonsense, but perfectly harmless and done in the usual smooth Colman manner. Ronald and Anna make a charming couple, and your heart is with Ronald in his efforts to keep their happy little home inviolate against all comers attracted like bees to honey-chile Anna. Father-in-law Charles Winneger maintains a respectful neutrality, and so long as his sponging concession is assured he doesn't care much who the victimized son-in-law is. Gilbert Roland (the cad) was still in the running when we left, but our bets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

This trait is a nuisance for her adoring, rich, hard-working publisher husband (Ronald Colman). For Caroline's heart is warm and wide and susceptible to dilettant males who are forever seeing "the essential Caroline," to flashy Latins looking for a wealthy woman who can "ride and shoot and rope a steer." Her capacity for bemused self-deception keeps Husband Colman busy wooing her back from each butterflight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Early in My Life With Caroline Husband Colman confides his problem to his audience in one of the theater's oldest pieces of business, the aside. Discovering his wife rendezvousing with a curly-headed hacendado (Gilbert Roland), he invites his audience to see what his life with Caroline ("Bless her little heart") has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...models "the essential Caroline" in brass (see cut), turns out to be less exciting than it promises to be. For Director Lewis Milestone has forsaken action for a series of static scenes bowed down under too much talk. The talk is sometimes funny, seldom convincing. But oldtime Actor Colman, now a greying 50, turns in a neat performance in his offhand, sotto voce manner, and England's Anna Lee (in her first big-time U.S. cinema role) is a first-rate Caroline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Outlaw, to star veteran Actor Walter Huston. No sooner was the shock of this major change absorbed than Fox delivered another, announced that a second independent unit had been signed to furnish two more pictures a year. Backbone of this addition were Stars Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Ronald Colman, Directors Lewis Milestone (Of Mice and Men), Anatole Litvak (All This and Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Order | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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