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...Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn; RKO-Radio) is, as nearly everybody knows, Gary Cooper impersonating Lou Gehrig, late, great first baseman of the New York Yankees. Some 80,000,000 U.S. baseball fans knew Gehrig or his picture by sight. A year ago, when he died at 38 of a rare, incurable form of paralysis, they virtually canonized him. To biographize him so soon was a ticklish job. Pride of the Yankees does it with taste and distinction...
...brains and ability, she has adamantly refused to trick them out with fake publicity. She also persists in her right to lead a private life. When her boss's head publicity man revealed her engagement to Scriptwriter Niven Busch before she had informed her closest friends, Sam Goldwyn had to take her aside and tell her the facts of Hollywood life. Said he: "That private life stuff is all right for a Garbo, but you're no Garbo. You're an average American girl...
After two years in Life With Father she was spotted by Goldwyn, who now boasts: "I knew she was a great actress before the first act was over." At any rate, he signed her to play Bette Davis' daughter in The Little Foxes. The reward for her performance was a choice role in Mrs. Miniver. Says William Wyler, who directed both pictures: "She can do nothing wrong. . . . I've never had less trouble directing anyone. She has the one best asset any actor can have: she has never committed an error in acting taste...
Moviegoers knew it. Hollywood knew it. Louis B. Mayer finally said it. Warning his moviemakers to find fresh replacements for the male actors who are fast being taken by the Army & Navy. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head man admitted: "Audiences are tired of some of our old faces. They've been looking at them too long...
...Married An Angel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) vigorously rubs the bloom from the wings of the brisk, fresh, imaginative musical that ran on Broadway four years ago. Then it had bounce, charm, a good Rodgers & Hart score, and the electric presence of grave, ashen, graceful Vera Zorina, every man's idea of a down-to-earth angel. M.G.M.'s cineversion has the R. & H. melodies (ponderously played), Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, and a fantastically mutilated plot...