Word: greer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Station West (RKO Radio) stars Dick Powell as an undercover Army officer. The setting is the Far West, perhaps 70 years ago. Jane Greer is a girl named Charlie who runs the saloon, the mining town itself, and practically everything in the neighborhood. Lieut. Powell suspects that she also runs the bandit gang which has murdered two soldiers who were guarding a gold shipment. In the course of hounding down the culprits for the Government, Dick gets beaten up and held up. In quieter moments, he listens to Burl lves sing, and passes the time of day with Charlie...
Late in the show, there is a good, rousing fire, and in the long run the hero makes one part of the West safe for bullion runners. It is all moderately entertaining formula, done with a slight extra edge of care, humor and understanding-except for Jane Greer...
Julia Misbehaves (M-G-M). During the amatory hurly-burly of World War I, Julia (Greer Garson), a hoy-de-hoyden of London's music halls, marries a landed gent (Walter Pidgeon). They break up before long and, for their child's sake, Julia nobly awards the father 100% custody. The years go by, and Julia, now a middle-aging tramp, gets an invitation to her daughter's posh wedding...
...whole idea of the picture seems to be that it will wow the fans to see Miss Garson in tights, floundering in the mud, playing at comedy. But it is no news that Greer Garson has good legs (vide Random Harvest), or that she is a skillful comedienne (vide Valley of Decision); nor is it particularly funny to see dignity, whether real or superimposed, mucked...
...tinkering with the story of Samson and Delilah (starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr); the account in the Book of Judges still seemed a bit thin. If A Streetcar Named Desire ever gets made into a movie, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Bette Davis, Deborah Kerr, Olivia De Havilland and Greer Garson all have a bid in to play the heroine, a boozy chippy. Twentieth Century-Fox shelled out "more than $75,000" for Ernest Hemingway's twelve-year-old short story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro...