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Change of Heart (Fox). Long the most popular romantic team in cinema, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell last appeared together in Tess of the Storm Country two years ago. Hollywood gossip to the effect that they were separated because of objections by Miss Gaynors husband seemed confirmed when she sued Lydell Peck, Fox executive, for divorce, charged "unreasonable jealousy." Last month Miss Gaynor's divorce from Lydell Peck became final. Now in Change of Heart she and Farrell are happily reunited. Neither homely nor comely, Miss Gaynor brings to her new role all the old sentimentality which made...
...Change of Heart the triangle becomes a rectangle, with matters complicated accordingly. To Manhattan seeking careers go four young college graduates (Gaynor, Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers). Like figures on an Egyptian bas-relief, they love in profile: Dunn loves Gaynor who loves Farrell who loves Rogers who loves all the boys. When Ginger Rogers marries a rich Broadwayite, Farrell goes into a sickly decline. Miss Gaynor nurses him back to health, marries him, keeps him from sinning with sprightly Ginger Rogers, who finds consolation in breezy Jimmy Dunn. Good shot: Janet Gaynor shaving Charles Farrell...
...like Farrell and Gaynor, all right; if not, all wrong. This time we are just graduating form college, and we want to go to New York, us two and Ginger Rogers and another fellow to become actresses, sob sisters, crooners, lawyers, or what have you. Us four are going to stick together through thick and thin, but the eternal triangle turns into a quadrilateral, and many embarrassing situations and mutual seductions occur. Still, all does end happily, and we clinch in the living room of our rich benefactor, just overcome with the prospect of a little white cottage...
...Janet Gaynor...
...Uncle Bob (Lionel Barrymore) occupy Connelly Hall but are so strapped that they can no longer get credit at the country store. A Northerner ("damn blue-bellied Yankee") moves in upon their acres as a tenant farmer, starts an experimental tobacco crop. On his death his daughter Joanna (Janet Gaynor) carries on. Young Will Connelly falls in love with her. Proud old Mrs. Connelly indignantly orders the girl off her place. Alter the usual to-do Will makes a stand, marries Joanna, turns the plantation from cotton to tobacco and reaps a new fortune. Tight-laced Mrs. Connelly is last...