Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love isn't born on a beautiful April morn...
Swathed in a cocoonlike gown of gold lamé, she came wriggling out of the wings like a caterpillar on a hot rock. At the mike, still undulating, she launched into a typical Dandridge patter song called Love Isn't Born, It's Made. Sample...
...oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman-and it pointedly ignores their outside accomplishments. When a subscriber wins an Academy Award, it isn't news for the Crier. But when Reader Irene Dunne traps a skunk in her house, it is. The Crier is a success because it is a slick Hollywood make-believe of a country newspaper...
...feel like a heel panning a movie about blinded war veterans, but Bright Victory isn't very good. It reels off too many unnecessarily sentimental scenes to be a good documentary. And it does not contain enough plot to make an even passable drama...
They had the acting talent too. Kennedy was given a difficult role, and he deserves plus credit for not overplaying it. Peggy Dow, as the love interest, isn't always agile enough to stay out of the mushy spots. But the rest of the cast is good...