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That Certain Age (Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper; TIME...
That Certain Age (Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper; TIME...
...convinced that the plan presents exceptional economic and artistic possibilities. Certainly the post office business would increase with stamps bearing replicas of Shirley Temple, Norma Shearer, Irene Dunne. Deanna Durbin. Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin and even Charlie McCarthy and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped by John Ford (Hurricane), or Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous, Test Pilot). For capitalizing girlish sweetness at the box office, he is certainly no rival to Viennese Henry Koster, imported by Universal two years ago, to whom Deanna Durbin and Danielle Darrieux owe a large part of their current popularity. For urbane, continental sophistication, he is outclassed by Ernst Lubitsch, who last week announced that he would henceforth produce his own pictures, backed by Myron Selznick, Producer David Selznick's agent brother...
...made this especially impressive was that it occurred in spite of Three Smart Girls, one of the big money-making pictures of the year, which grossed a total of nearly $2,000,000. Star of Three Smart Girls and two subsequent Universal hits is blithe, bouncing, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Suspecting that it needed, if not another Durbin, at least a running mate of comparable calibre, Universal acquired one, with the same lucky initials, in the noteworthy French person of 21-year-old Danielle Darrieux (Mayerling). The Rage of Paris introduces Mlle Darrieux to English-speaking audiences...