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...Christmas All This and Heaven Too was a bestseller. Warner hands began to pat Warner shoulders. Warner minds began to be obsessed with the idea that they owned another Gone With the Wind. In its heyday Gone With the Wind had been known among other things as GWTW. Discreetly at first, Warner tongues began to refer to All This and Heaven Too as ATAHT. It was one letter longer. The psychological moment had come to turn the valuable property into a movie...
...Roland Young brings horn-rimmed Caspar Milquetoast to life as he meekly submits to buxom Bostonian Ethel Marder--who acts a fluttery matron of social parts. And the inevitable fish-eyed English butler, Arthur Treacher, chills the drinks with a glance. The technicolor charity ball approaches the photography of GWTW; versatile Anna Neagle, who dances, sings, and acts with equal ability, sets a high mark for other screen beauties to aim at. This movie is a guaranteed cure for blue book blues...
...SIDEWALKS OF LONDON:--Chiefly notable for the performance of the pre-GWTW Vivien Leigh. Added attractions: views of pre-war London, lead performance by a post-prime Laughton, and a distinctly pre- (or post) Hayes office clinch involving Miss Leigh and "Strangler Rex" Harrison. Highly recommended for all Leigh fans,--and their name is legion...
...here, boys; come and see it. You will see four hours of superb acting, excellent scenes in technicolor, a wonderful story. But you will not see a great picture. GWTW has been produced on a monumental scale using the best of everything Hollywood has to offer, but the story is not big enough to make the picture go down in film history. Not that it necessarily should, of course, but there has been so much ballyhoo about this being motion pictures' greatest triumph. It is not. Rather it is the best in entertainment...
There is much more to the picture than this short review can hope to encompass. GWTW is certainly the best picture to strike this or any other town in many a day. Everyone should take at least a two-hour look-in on what Hollywood can do if it wants to. Mr. Selznick will have his cost and a handsome profit back before long, and the public will have had some fine entertainment. We think this a more than fair exchange...