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...strawberries and sour cream with Mr. Belvedere (Webb). For a while a lot of people think that he is being bad with Maureen O'Hara, and when her husband, Robert Young, objects with some' emphasis, Webb keeps on shredding the lettuce that he has been shredding. "Life must go on," he explains. Finally he writes a book that exposes the little doings of everyone in the suburb, O'Hara and Young make up like sensible folk, and things are generally looking up, with Miss O'Hara expecting a fourth little boy. Three's a plenty, in spite of that...
...aquatic love scene: "Maureen O'Hara playfully pushes John Payne into the water, dives in and a gay race ensues. Boy & Girl clamber onto the raft. . . . After they get tired laughing, he gives her a hard, intense, libidinous look and seals her mouth with a very long passionate kiss . . . so that the screenwriter won't have to think up any dialogue...
Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...
...Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become...
...ultimately dispiriting quality of O'Hara's writing has been variously explained. One explanation: since his first novel, Appointment in Samarra, he has worked out a kind of ring technique for polishing off his subjects in one fast round. Subjects on which he might have to go the distance are not taken on; such subjects include whatever, if anything, O'Hara may love...