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...plot that has given musicomedy books a bad name for years. Since this is not a musicomedy but a screwball farce, the series of studiously rigged romantic misunderstandings is even harder to take. Three suitors (Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) scramble for the hand of an improvident heiress (Deborah Kerr). There are some fleeting laughs, Heroine Kerr's natural charm and a fairly amusing performance by Actor Lawford, but what the picture badly lacks is songs, dances and a lot of rewriting on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Once, when a French lesson got Lilibet's English up, the now matronly heiress apparent to Britain's throne impetuously crowned herself with an ornamental inkpot, and for a time had blue hair to match her blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Confessions of Crawfie | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...addition to the regular Hollywood supply of six-guns and sin) 72 carefully selected pictures. The Government agreed to guarantee, on each movie, the conversion of shipping and supply costs and up to $25,000 in earnings from blocked Deutsche marks into dollars. Sample ECA-picked films: The Heiress, The Informer, The Hasty Heart, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Inducement | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Tight Little Island. 2. The Heiress. 3. They Had What It Took. 4. Paisan. 5. The Bicycle Thief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...present two plays based on James' stories. "The Heiress" and "The Innocents" are running in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cost for Idler Spring Production Released | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

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