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...Lucky Partners" R. K. O. has taken Ronald Colman out of the Tibetan mountains, and Ginger Rogers off the dancing stage to create a new comedy combination. Though, it is doubtful whether the partnership is so lucky for the film audience, the story surely gives Providence a thoroughly outstanding workout. Ginger Rogers' good fortune starts off with the gift of a $350 gown, includes $6000 won on a sweepstakes ticket and ends up with Ronald Colman as her grand prize. Ronald gets Ginger, and that's good enough luck for anyone...
Light story and light co-star notwithstanding, Ronald Colman manages to get in his familiar heroic touch. Whether is Shangri-La or Greenwich Village, he remains always the debonair adventurer with poetry in his words and visions in his eyes. "Lucky Partners" isn't one of his epics, but it does reach a decent level...
Died. George Fitzmaurice, 55, Paris-born pioneer cinema director and writer; of streptococcic infection: in Los Angeles. He first made his name directing Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, later directed such stars as Greta Garbo (Mata Hari), Gary Cooper (Peter Ibbetson), Ronald Colman (Raffles...
...Thief is still Raffles (David Niven*), cricketer and second-story man, whose faulty sense of property rights is corrected by a great love (Olivia de Havilland). In the first Goldwyn version, Ronald Colman played Raffles with ardor. David Niven plays the part with crookish cunning. But Niven's cunning is no match for Scotland Yard in the person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady...
...past six months his home has been a secluded wooden cottage in Pacific Palisades, overlooking Santa Monica. With his wife and niece he lives very quietly, takes long walks-sometimes 20 miles-in the Santa Monica hills. The only movie people he sees much of are Ronald Colman, Anita Loos, Directors Cukor and Mamoulian, and Charlie Chaplin, "an old and good friend." Another friend he sees fairly often is Bertrand Russell, now a professor at U. C. L. A. Recently he gave a picnic; the guests were Russell and Garbo...