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...Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman who simply looked and acted the way any grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love like a saber-toothed tiger. She treated...
...London, from its building by a British admiral in 1804 until its destruction by a Nazi bomb. Among its starry occupants are Charles Laughton (a tipsy butler), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (a plumber), Claude Rains (a rich villain), Roland Young (a boarder), Merle Oberon (a desk clerk), Anna Neagle (a grownup foundling). Good scene: Brian Aherne (a coal heaver) making love to Ida Lupino (a scullery maid...
Barrie's sentimental fantasy about a half-starved Cinderella of the London slums, who cares for tiny orphans, has gorgeous dreams of a fairy ball and finds a real-life Prince Charming in the person of a London bobby, seems today as offensively cute as a grownup babbling baby talk. It is also blatantly tremulous, with a sustained catch in its throat and a pandering tear in its eye. Worse yet, it is so saccharine that the Scots in Barrie seems to have become butterscots. The play has that most dreadful of all forms of coquetry-a child...
...public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...
...police station Knifey looked on as Joseph Wodarczyk, reconciled, kissed his wife. "Girls?" said Knifey. "Poison, that's what they are, poison. I first got to stealin' because of a girl. I was twelve and she was ten, and we were in love like a couple of grownup goofs...