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Congratulations on the fine article [Jan. 31] on Grace Kelly. I am very glad to know she has a mind of her own as far as her career and the publicity involved are concerned. Hollywood has miscast and ruined Greer Garson . . . Deborah Kerr will probably be in the same boat soon . . . and Audrey Hepburn will probably be playing in something called The Eleanor Roosevelt Story before long. But it looks as if Miss K can take care of herself...
...possible that Grace might yet win an Oscar for her Country Girl performance, and even M-G-M would have a hard time turning an Oscar-winning actress into a road-company Greer Garson...
...Patterson (by Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson) chronicles the tangled real life and fragrant dream life of adolescence. There is good reason for Teddy Hicks's flights from reality: a 15-year-old Negro girl whose father deserted her mother (well played by Ruth Attaway), Teddy lives in ramshackle poverty. Mischievous, sensitive, sharp-tongued, she yearns to be "a rich white woman" like her mother's employer, Mrs. Patterson. But mingled with her gaudy fantasies of tea parties in the Patterson set are episodes involving raffish Chicago folk and a certain "Mr. D." from Hell...
...Twelve Men (M-G-M). In Mrs. Miniver (1942), her greatest hit, Greer Garson helped convince the U.S. public that the English middle-class family, with its back to the wall of a rose-covered dream cottage, was manning-and womaning-the front line of freedom. In Her Twelve Men, which is perhaps the most Greerily effective Garson picture in recent years, she does the same kind of job for the teaching profession...
...does almost everything by ten thousands." But when the new Athenians really want to enjoy themselves, they make for the Koon Kreek Klub, an exclusive (i.e., mostly millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas, and a member of the sunfish family). With guides to bait the hooks and take off the fish...