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...finds it difficult to register emotion convincingly and is much better in an exotic role than in the one she is forced to play in this picture. Very well cast in her difficult role is Elizabeth Allan, who plays the nurse silently in love with the young interne. Jean Hersholt, as the eminent surgeon, and Otto Kruger, as the struggling practitioner stuck with a wife when a young interne, both turn in good performances. "Men in White" should certainly be seen by anyone contemplating a career of research where there is lots of work and little time for love-making...
...Hochberg, played splendidly by Jean Hersholt, is the motive force behind the story. He has sacrificed everything honestly to make himself a great doctor. It is he who shows young Ferguson the relation between his duty to the medical profession and his personal happiness. Myrna Loy and Elizabeth Allan are capable, but since they are only foils in the story, have little chance to shine...
...Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie Dressier (Carlotta Vance), Jean Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing...
...family of beer brewers during the years 1916 to 1933, you can do so by seeing this picture. One of old Otto Hoffman's sons is killed in the War. With the arrival of Prohibition, his best barrel-roller (Charles Bickford) turns 'legger. Hoffman (Jean Hersholt) patiently awaits the day when brewing will be legal again but by the time it arrives, he has lost most of his money and some of his good humor. When beer is finally legalized, gangsters shoot old Hoffman and it takes his son (Richard Arlen) and several friends to avenge...
...Selznick was to announce an all-star cast, even more prodigious than the one which Thalberg last year chose for Grand Hotel, for MGM's forthcoming production of Dinner at Eight: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Madge Evans, John Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Jean Hersholt, Louise Closser Hale. Grant Mitchell, May Robson, Karen Morley...