Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tangible evidence of the oft repeated press agents' blurb, "You'll laugh and you'll cry", is found in: Three Smart Girls, starring that remarkable youngster, Deanna Durbin. Whatever mistakes may have been made in the earlier portions of the film are compensated for in the cleverly built up climax, which "packs a strong emotional wallop...
...revamping process the producers overlooked a strong inconsistency in the character of the father of the girls. Appearing first in the stock comedy role of the middle aged man in love with a young charmer, he was an entirely ludicrous figure of the Keystone Cop variety. Later, when the film was expanded he developed into a definite individual, warm and somehow appealing. Had his earlier portrayal been toned down, the picture would more clousaly have approached the perfection claimed by its exponents...
Unfortunately, those who would enjoy seeing "Three Smart Girls" more than once at one sitting will be obliged to withstand the character deteriorating onslaughts of Shirley Temple in "Stowaway". This is a routine Temple film with the little blonde bombshell going through her usual paces accompanied by Robert Yound and Alice Faye. While Temple and Young appear to be almost contemporaries, Miss Faye upholds the adult end of the entertainment quite creditably...
...brave enough" to see herself on the screen, Viennese Cinemactress Elisabeth Bergner fidgeted in an office at the London Pavilion while Queen Mary viewed her latest film. Dreaming Lips, crept to her seat in time to be presented as the performance ended...
Londing practically nothing, and probably detracting from the program in general, is a sickening film called "Along Came Love." Of all the ridiculous, shoddy bits of colluloid ever to come out of the Paramount Studios, this one ranks at the top of the list. With no cast and no story it would seem impossible to add further to the failure of a picture, but this time the filming and directing reaches...