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Executive Suite. Star-studded scramble for the presidency of a big corporation; with William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Shelley Winters, etc., etc. (TIME...
Executive Suite. Star-studded scramble for the presidency of a big corporation; with William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, etc., etc. (TIME...
Since her first Metro picture (Mogam-bo), Grace has been busier than a flock of starlets at a cocktail party. Warner Bros, borrowed her for Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
...When Holden steps into his den, its walls and floors covered with handsome futuristic designs, and murmurs, "This has been the only thing that has kept me going," one suddenly feels an overwhelming aversion to modern design. When Holden shouts inscrutable formulae and numbers into a telephone, one sickens of enlightened science and engineering. When Holden's loyal employees crowd around him to seek advice and solace, one longs for the Marley-Scrooge days when employees knew their place. When Holden orates about the necessity for expansion and research in modern industry, one feels a quick sympathy for William McKinley...
...brief, by espousing liberalism Holden makes conservation very attractive. He is so clean-cut that he is greasy. He is so sincere that he is glib. The friendship he shows for the factory workers stems from the overwhelming consideration that "Happy workers are efficient workers," not from any basic sympathy with others. Frederic March's evil comptroller seems the only honestly motivated person in the movie; Mr. Holden is just the ruthless comptroller with a Business School education. MICHAEL J. HALBERSTAM...