Word: gwenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pride & Prejudice (Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver. Melville Cooper, Edmund Gwenn; TIME, July...
Most will enjoy hearing from an excellent cast (including Edmund Gwenn, Edna May Oliver, Melville Cooper, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frieda Inescort) some of the most literate dialogue ever spoken on a sound track...
...Loretta Young (a bachelor girl) to the altar, the problem is to provide enough comedy antics to keep the customers awake until the wedding. Cinemactor Milland and the dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...
Part of the credit for making this somersault admirably smooth instead of ridiculous belongs to Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director Richard Thorpe (Night Must Fall). Part belongs to British Actor Edmund Gwenn for a first-rate performance as the butler who is submissive, not subservient. But most of the entertainment in The Earl of Chicago, and that is plenty, is provided by Robert Montgomery's transformation of his playboy grin into a fixed moronic stare, his playboy titter into a loony hee-hee, his playboy aplomb into gangster arrogance...
...Arnold, a 100 per cent honest lawyer, whom Silky has previously framed and sent to Joliet for seven years. This is the background against which is thrown the concatenation of events leading to Silky's trial, conviction, and execution as the Earl of Galay. Arnold and British-born Edmund Gwenn support Montgomery superably, and amazingly enough there is hardly a woman's face in the entire 87 minutes of running time. This is no epic such as "The Grapes of Wrath," but in its unpretentious way it is well worth seeing. It'll give you an entirely new slant...