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Cluny Brown. Ernst Lubitsch puts Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer and an excellent cast through the hoops of British snobbery (TIME...
Hard-pressed even to survive, the Copts could develop no great religious art or thought. Sneered the great German theologian Ernst Troeltsch: "Christianity is what it has come to be only through its alliance with antiquity; while with the Copts and Ethiopians it is but a kind of buffoonery." But the very backwardness of the Coptic Church has made it an archeological repository of beliefs and practices more like those of apostolic Christianity than those of Western churches...
...kidding of naively melodramatic antifascists comes a few years late, but it still tickles. Thanks to the knowledgeable irony of Producer-Director Ernst Lubitsch, the snob mannerisms of the three classes, which might have been heavy going, become deftly funny. The whimsically dizzy heroine, who leaves her hoofprints in the ferns and her bloomers all over the place, was rather wearing for some readers of Margery Sharp's popular novel; but Jennifer Jones does her proud. Charles Boyer wastes his talents like a gentleman, and Una O'Connor, without a line to her name, is a howl...
There was also some confusion about the gallery: some mistook it for Manhattan's "Museum of Non-Objective Painting," which Peggy's uncle, Solomon Guggenheim, supported. Peggy and Ernst were both unfaithful and both jealous, she says. The end came when Peggy saw Max's mistress "with her hair dyed turquoise. Inserted in her blouse, which was specially cut for this purpose, were little photographs of Max. This really was too much...