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Wyler is neither cocky nor objectionably conceited, but he vigorously maintains that "the best picture or star in the world is not worth a tinker's damn without good direction." His pictures speak for him: These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, The Letter, The Little Foxes, etc. They have not spoken loudly enough, however, to win him an Academy Oscar for direction, despite the fact that few directors can match his picture-by-picture output...
Theatre (adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by Guy Bolton & Mr. Maugham; produced by John Golden) is a half-brittle, half-gooey tale of a glittering English stage couple who seem to the public like Darby & Joan, behave in private more like Don Juan and Jezebel. The first half-in Maugham's typical drawing-room style-is a faintly nasty account of their infidelities, so carefully underlined that for a while it looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets...
...play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...
Bette Davis is without a doubt one of the most talented actresses in Hollywood, and "The Great Lie" allows her to unlax and act the part of a natural appealing woman instead of being forced to play such priggish parts as a Jezebel or a Queen Elizabeth...
...Great Lie (Warner Bros.). For three years and three pictures Bette Davis and George Brent have tried to get together. In Jezebel Brent died dueling. In Dark Victory a brain tumor dispatched Miss Davis. Then it was Brent's turn again: he failed to live through The Old Maid. In The Great Lie they finally make it. The end leaves them in each other's arms, lark-happy...