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Hollywood's Beau Brummell (Stewart Granger) bears little relation to the historical one. George Bryan Brummell was the younger son of Lord North's private secretary. While at Eton he awed a somewhat older Etonian, George Brunswick, for life. Since George happened to be Prince of Wales, Brummell had no difficulty in entering high society, and was soon acknowledged "absolute monarch of the mode." Even the Prince of Wales once "began to blubber when told that Brummell did not like the cut of his coat." But at last the Beau and his patron had a falling-out; Brummell...
...Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
...story tells what happens to some swine among whom the pearl is cast. Mostly, they kill each other to get it, but nobody does get it, because Stewart Granger, the last man left alive, has to run away from hostile natives, leaving the pearl at the bottom of a lagoon. Later he tries to persuade his brother, Captain Taylor, master of a whaling ship, to sail back and raise the treasure. When the captain refuses, Granger steals both Taylor's ship and his wife (Ann Blyth...
Since this movie has been made so often, it is curious that Hollywood cannot at least make it well. The long pearl-fishing flashback puts a potbelly on the middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And the derring-duo, Taylor and Actress Blyth, seem, in their big storm scene, while all the screen rocks wildly, as beautiful, as smilingly unperturbed and as lifeless as a manikin couple in a sporting-goods-store window...
...possible weak spots in the Lion armor may appear in the 147 and 177 pound class, where Harry Scott and Dale Granger have each lost a match. Three different men have wrestled at 157. Bob Niver will probably fill in tomorrow...