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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND...
Walter de Havilland, 69, father of Cine-stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (1941 Oscar winner), turned up in Denver with his Japanese second wife, Yoki, looking for a job. Saying that neither of his daughters would have anything to do with him because of Yoki, he added wistfully: "I guess Olivia is worth about four million dollars...
...hopelessly human hero is a blurting young English professor (Henry Fonda) who gets branded a Red because he wants to read one of Vanzetti's (of Massachusetts' Sacco & Vanzetti) letters to his class. The battle is joined when one of his wife's (Olivia de Havilland) old football-playing beaux, Joe the Twirler (Jack Carson), arrives at Midwestern U. for the big game...
This well-pastried pie of sense and nonsense is ably dished out by Protagonists Fonda and de Havilland. Co-Author Nugent, who directed, fails to reduce it from play form to unadulterated cinema, but is faithful to the captivating Thurber theme. Noisy Actor Carson is a natural for his Piltdown role. His best scene: demonstrating-in the professor's living room, with the professor's best china-his sensational new football play: a fake fake...
...things he was busy about was a new series of Plays for Americans, to be broadcast by NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4:30. For the first in the series, produced last Sunday, voluble, begoggled, little Arch Oboler went to Manhattan with fair Olivia de Havilland, the leading lady. Although protesting that he was being made a fall guy in the Garbo matter, Arch was meditative about the state of his radio...