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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...