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...challenge, the rest of the week's dramatic shows were far above average. Maurice Evans and Hallmark combined to produce a first-rate version of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green. Eva Le Gallienne was crisply dictatorial as the do-gooding English spinster, while John Kerr smoldered like a burning coal as the boy brought from the bowels of a Welsh mine to the stately quadrangles of Oxford...
Neither the charm of Cary Grant, nor the talent of Deborah Kerr, nor the dancing of Betta St. John can rescue Dream Wife from the ranks of second rate films. Of the three, Betta St. John comes closest to effecting the rescue, if only because she does little talking and lots of moving...
Miss St. John, of course, is the ideal wife. Miss Kerr is the American facsimile thereof. It is for traveling salesman Cary to choose between the ideal in the form of a Bhoukistani princess and the usual in the shape of Miss Kerr. The swashbuckling Grant, in the guise of a Madison Avenue executive, chooses the Princess, only to find that there are more complications to the Princess than meet...
While glibly moving about in the triangular affair, Cary and Kerr deliver innumerable jokes, which, like the situation, eventually become strained and tedious. It is only with the aid of some harem scenes, in both American and Bhoukistani versions, that the movie survives. The survival, however, is rather precarious for viewers who want more than a situation comedy, with just too many variations and glib jokes...
...brought out the violins. "For many years I have treasured the word 'great,' " the Daily News's John Chapman wrote. "This morning it belongs to Miss Harris." The Post's Richard Watts declared that he had "never seen a finer portrayal of Joan," and Walter Kerr of the Trib pronounced her "fiercely, wonderfully believable" in her "dazzling honesty." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called her a "fiery particle" and Joan "her finest, most touching performance...