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...Director Borzage's best pictures but it has the qualities of intelligence, honesty and observance which are indelibly part of his style. Douglass Montgomery gives a quiet, unmannered and understanding performance. Margaret Sullavan, whose brilliant acting in Only Yesterday made her Hollywood's brightest prospect since Katherine Hepburn, makes Little Man, What Now her picture. Good shot: Lammchen conversing with Hans while riding on a merry-go-round, one sentence with each circuit...
...commencement play, and to Sullins College. Her father gave her permission to study dancing for a year. She went to Boston, switched from dancing to the theatre, played juvenile leads in Cape Cod stock companies. When she first went to Hollywood, she had had more stage experience than Katherine Hepburn : a year in Elmer Harris's The Modern Virgin, a season on the road in Strictly Dishonorable, the ingenue role in Dinner at Eight for two months...
Lovely, Husky-voiced Margaret Sullavan, who despite all the superlatives that have been heaped on her bids fair to outshine la Hepburn, gives a charming impersonation of Lammchen, the devoted young wife of Hans Pinneberg, played by Douglass Montgomery. Mr. Montgomery suffers considerably by comparison, the best that can be said of him is that he is very earnest and sincere. The plot has to do with the vicissitudes in the life of this unassuming couple trying to live a peaceful existence. Lammchen is to have a baby, Hans loses his jobs through no particular fault...
...Spitfire" is all Katharine Hepburn and very little else. For those who worship the great Hepburn, this picture is very acceptable; but those who prefer a well rounded story with balanced presentation will be unsatisfied. Miss Hepburn, whose Hollywood career has been what they call "dynamic," finds a role that is still different from any of her others in the rustic lass of the Tonnessee mountains, who merits the name "Trigger" and the picture's title, "Spitfire...
...story, which starts off with the promise of an indictment of hill-billy superstition, soon becomes the Hepburn, the whole Hepburn, and nothing but the Hepburn. Lula Vollmer, who has written several plays of the backwoods, sees her story completely appropriated by the clever actress who, we hear, is aiming at a Hollywood greatness that will rival Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers...