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...Jackson College, Halfback Derek gets buried in such a pile-up of broken illusions that the movie looks like a put-up job. Football brings him fleeting glory, leaves him no time to study, wins him only the snooty tolerance of Jackson's aristocrats and (until the fadeout) the well-born girl (Donna Reed) he loves. It crushes his body and his self-respect to feed the ambitions of a string-pulling alumnus (Sidney Blackmer) and a coach (Otto Hulett) with the face and temperament of a Gestapo...
...hopeless, the son ready to follow his dreams into the merchant marine. In the movie, the visitor's line of guff, heavily larded with Dale Carnegie psychology, brings the girl out of her cocoon, eager to greet another gentleman caller who comes up the stairs at the upbeat fadeout...
...poses as the bigshot's son (and who is intended to be lovable), Peter Price is the last, unspeakable word in precocious delinquency. Students of U.S. movie morality, noting that the t gangster's innocence of any actual killing qualifies him for a hero's fadeout, may be forced to conclude that racketeering short of murder is not punishable by Hollywood's Production Code...
...Fadeout. Around 11 a.m. Aly's pressagent stepped out of the clinic. "Gentlemen," he said portentously, "will you please stand by for an important announcement by Prince Aly Khan himself?" Rumpled and unshaven, Aly told the world: it was a ½lb. girl, a normal delivery, though "Rita had a very tough time." The baby would be called Yasmin, the Arabic word for jasmine. "I told you," he reminded a newsman, "that premature babies run in my family...
...Genoa. The marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...