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...pretty bad pictures these days without half trying. But almost any one of them, no matter how atrocious, contains some little twist of plot, a line or two, or some bit character perhaps, that goes against the general grain of inanity. All this is usually true, but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer this week has made it all too clear that the exception proves the rule. For, no matter how hard you may try, you can't possibly find anything about "Desire Mc" that merits praise of any sort...
...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
...leading department stores last week leaped at the chance to make a big business out of a little woman. The little woman is Irene Gibbons, whose credit line ("Costume supervision by Irene") has made her name and work familiar to millions of cinemaddicts as executive designer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios...
...Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a Technicolored distention of James Thurber's short story about a daydreaming timid-soul, is Danny Kaye's funniest movie. Henpecked half out of his senses by his mother (Fay Bainter) and threatened with worse by a sinister fiancee (Ann Rutherford) and prospective mother-in-law (Florence Bates), the celluloid Mitty (Kaye) deserves a Secret Life if ever a man did. He has several, all derived from the ferocious pulps he is paid to proofread...
...soon turns out that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...