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...Hays ending, as might be expected, with Gable promising not to rook the good citizens of Yellow Crik, Nevada. Put this one down to experience though don't blame it on bad acting but bad casting and a hackneyed plot. Turner having a baby and pulling a Durbin act calls to mind sweaters, Artic Shaw, and one-month-marriages, thereby wrecking the general effect. There's also a second feature dealing with love in prolix form, a broken engagement and other assorted ho-bum. Lack of Harvard football pictures indicates another oversight on the management's part, no doubt...
...Started With Eve (Universal) will mark one more milestone for devotees of dimply Deanna Durbin. Her fans have followed Universal's sweetish nightingale through adolescence (her first date, first kiss, etc.). Now 19, and still growing strong, pretty Deanna now intones her alleluias to womanhood (she was married last spring...
Marriage has worked no noticeable change in Cinemactress Durbin. She is a big girl now and, while her speaking voice is often harsh and edgy, her rich lyric soprano is mature enough to entrance Father Laughton, who ends by cutting conga capers with her in a nightclub (see cut p. 94). Her acting, still pleasantly young-girlish, could stand a shot of dramatic voltage...
...fact that Deanna has been Universal's big money-maker for the last five years, it would be a mystery why the studio publicity refers to Charles Laughton as "one of the few stars considered important enough to share co-starring honors with Miss Durbin." The old master, in his, own accomplished eye-rolling, head-cocking, lip-pursing, massively mincing way, retaliates by walking off with the picture. His portrait of a lovable, rascally old financier neatly concludes whatever it was that Started With...
...screen star (TIME, Feb. 17), turned up in Gloucester, Mass, with a pair of California automobile license plates, dumped them into the harbor, swore he was washed up with Hollywood..... Maureen O'Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out... Deanna Durbin got laryngitis...Ralph Bellamy and Pat O'Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer.... Under serious consideration as a new comedy team: Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney....Back from summer barnstorming, Luise Rainer emoted to Manhattan reporters: "I saw cows . . . and then I knew...