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Moulin Rouge (20th Century) is a sketchy compendium of familiar musicom edy patterns. Like Dancing Lady it is a backstage romance. Its show-within-a-show suggests Forty-Second Street. For plot, Moulin Rouge performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian...
Sirs: Your criticism of film producers on p. 25 of your issue of Dec. 21, for using the talented Tallulah Bankhead in their efforts to put over "three of the dustiest vehicles of the year," prompts me to write you a paragraph or two. Both Miss Bankhead and I are natives of Alabama. Long before Miss Bankhead went to London to achieve fame on the stage, I worked alongside her interesting and brilliant aunt, Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owen, on the staff of the venerable Montgomery Advertiser. That was back in the days when the American stage had much of which...
...which every cinema concern except Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is now subject. After fetching talented, exciting, polished Tallulah Bankhead home from the London stage with the intention of making her a picture star, Paramount has introduced her to U. S. cinemaddicts with three of the dustiest vehicles of the year. Tarnished Lady was claptrap about a girl who married for money and later regretted it. My Sin was a routine rigmarole about a lady who tried to conceal a Central American past in a Manhattan interior decorating establishment. The Cheat is along the same lines-about...