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Director John Farrow works in some photogenic backgrounds of the couple's flight through Southern California. But his script and star deprive the movie of credibility. Actress Domergue smolders and storms like an overheated Theda Bara, gets some ludicrous lines to read (and gives them the delivery they warrant), builds up fast to an overpowering impression that she has done her best work in publicity stills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...offered a part last month, but ... I was too busy," mused photogenic Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, onetime movie mate of Tarzan and wife of Director John Farrow (Two Years Before the Mast) as she posed for a picture in Hollywood with 6-month-old daughter Stephanie (see cut), her sixth child. "Perhaps when the children are all grown I'll become a character actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Director John Farrow not only helped to write a pretty lively script, but managed to keep his highly volatile star and story under control. Also doing double duty is Songwriter Frank Loesser who, besides contributing a nice burlesque of a marcelled thug named Hair-Do Lempke, composed the songs which Betty sandwiches in between her Keystone clowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime cine-mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 43, Australian-born Hollywood writer-director (Wake Island, The Big Clock): their sixth child, third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephanie Margarita. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...behind me, Satan." Shedding his wife, his honest friends and his self-respect as he wins the governorship, Lawyer Mitchell is on the point of delivering himself for shipment to hell, but his better nature triumphs in the end. The happy ending is scarcely a surprise, but Director John Farrow leads up to it with a series of small shocks, and neat twists. He appears to have the exhilarating conviction that man-meets-devil can be as interesting as boy-meets-girl. The fine sardonic dialogue of Jonathan Latimer's screen play is a great help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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