Word: greers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane Greer plays an erratic, not-too-bright parolee who gives up shoplifting in favor of chintz, pressure cookers, and Dennis O'Keefe. Her portrayal of a charmingly brashful girl is excellent. O'Keefe, as a columnist who jilts the parole officer to marry the parolee, is a poor complement to Miss Greer. As the title suggests, she keeps some pretty dreary company in this film...
...number of routine conflicts, presented in an unoriginal way, further weaken the screenplay. Miss Scott has to choose between losing her newsman fiance and using her legal power to block the marriage; Miss Greer must choose between her old ways and going straight...
Director John Cromwell treats this trite subject matter in an unimaginative way, with the result that the picture rarely seems realistic, despite the fine acting of Miss Greer. At many points, the plot is crippled by weak dialogue. When Miss Scott asks the parole board to return her rival's civil liberties so she can marry the newsman; she says, "Please give her back her civil liberties." Small wonder that the answer...
From the start it is clear that Greer Garson has been stricken with one of those dread, nameless Hollywood diseases that will kill her off in the last reel. She receives the news with a chin-up, clear-eyed gallantry that has her doctor blubbering. When Walter Pidgeon, her remarkably obtuse husband, finally catches on, he too is reduced to choked-up admiration. Meanwhile, Greer gently discourages a U.S. colonel (John Hodiak) who is in love with her, straightens out the affairs of her nitwit daughter (Cathy O'Donnell), and sets right the tangled marriage of a British general...
...time to celebrate is when you're admitted to the family," said Irish-born Cinemactress Greer Garson (now Mrs. Elijah E. Fogelson) as she slipped into Fort Worth to apply for U.S. citizenship...