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Rawhide (20th Century-Fox). Four badmen, escaped from jail, seize an isolated stagecoach station and wait for the big gold shipment to come through. They kill the stationmaster, grab his assistant (Tyrone Power) as a foil, and hold a stranded traveler (Susan Hayward) and a toddler as hostages in the belief that they are Power's wife & child...
...picture tumbles into almost every pitfall that Stars in My Crown tastefully avoided. It miscasts its parson (juvenile William Lundigan) and his loyal wife (sexy Susan Hayward), sugarcoats the characterization of its village atheist (ably played by Alexander Knox), plugs away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband...
Cinemactress Susan Hayward said she had posed for her last kitchen publicity picture: "Hollywood is not full of stars with dishpan hands. That's fiddle-faddle. We're exciting and half screwball. All of us are flamboyant hams...
Call Me Madam (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) opened with an advance sale of over $1,000,000 and the sort of fabulous buildup that can all too easily backfire. But Call Me Madam, while far from stupendous, is perfectly satisfactory-and at least can boast of one stupendous performer, Ethel Merman...
Daphne Laureola (by James Bridie; produced by Leland Hayward & Herman Shumlin in association with Laurence Olivier) is noteworthy only as a vehicle-and a transatlantic conveyance-for Dame Edith Evans. Probably the most distinguished of English actresses has come over from London in it, to waste her own time, though not entirely her audience's, on Broadway. Playing an aged baronet's rudderless, unquiet middle-aged wife-a woman in whom drink brings out the tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense...