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...English Specials, and the studio's British stable (Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams), accomplished actors all, help it out a good deal. Walter Pidgeon is not very happily cast as Sabre, but he succeeds in making a solid character of him. Britain's Deborah Kerr by now seems thoroughly at home in Hollywood, both as a beauty and an actress; but she is wasted in such a role. Angela Lansbury does a good, straight job in her "unpleasant" role. Janet Leigh deserves much better parts...
...Deborah Kerr makes an entirely credible sister, devoid of the sentimentality that usually befouls religious characters in the movies. David Farrar and Flora Robson play with skill and vitality, while Jean Simmons, the Estella of "Great Expectations," is magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of, with some splendid photographic effects, and the only serious fault to be found is that the pace is sometimes too slow. It is a great pity that a picture so excellent in execution and so religious in theme should be chopped up by the censors...
...Actors. For acting honors, Hollywood ran second to the British. The Manhattan critics called Deborah Kerr the year's best actress-for her work in Britain's The Adventuress and Black Narcissus (no mention was made of Miss Kerr in MGM's The Hucksters). William Powell was called best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 26, copper-haired British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp, The Adventuress), who has thus far survived her M-G-Metamorphosis into a Hollywood star (The Hucksters), and Anthony Bartley, 28, ace Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Jane Bartley. Weight...
Pattern for Travel. They found it surprisingly easy to get around: only Kerr (who had offended the Yugoslavs with an earlier story) had visa trouble, and only in Yugoslavia were people unwilling to talk. In Helsinki, Attwood got nowhere with some Communists until he mentioned the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild; the Finns were first astonished ("How can you belong to a union and work for a capitalist paper?"), then friendly...