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...artist used flat, dry colors and a linear definition of forms very different from the technique by which he is commonly known. The same room contains a bronze relief, done in 1914, of a painting. The Judgment of Paris, done in 1908 and now the property of Actor Charles Laughton. Racked by arthritis during the last 20 years of his life, Renoir had to have his brush strapped to his arm to go on painting, could sculpture only with the help of one of his pupils...
...Goldwyn Follies and Hurricane, sequel to MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty. Starting with the Follies, every Goldwyn production will be filmed in Technicolor. In England, Producer Korda's most noteworthy picture on the new season's schedule will be I, Claudius with Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon. Said Producer Korda last week before leaving for a United Artists directors' meeting in Hollywood: "I feel that British pictures have to fight prejudice on the part of big American circuits. . . . While I am here I will look into the matter...
...breaking up the sporting goods department with a shotgun. Love and astrology are finally correlated at a store party, assisted by music from Phil Harris & Kenny Baker, a lovely dance by Miss Whitney and some low camera ballet legs. Best bit part: Romo Vincent's imitation of Charles Laughton...
With bona-fide critics hailing Laughton's "Rembrandt" as a satisfying sequal to his jobs with the notorious Tudor monarch and the "Mutiny on the Bounty", and with the local half-shell philosopher disagreeing with editorial policy, as is his prerogative, and damning it as a fraud and a delusion, the spectator has no where to turn. For certainly "Rembrandt" is not a great picture. Laughton, overimpressed with his own impressiveness, talks in a whisper that makes flesh creep, while the whole theme of the artist's life seems too simple for him and yet too deep, and it evades...
...time has come for someone to rise up in blasphemous heresy and explode the myth that Charles Laughton is infallibly the greatest living actor. For people are being lured in droves to witness his inane eccentricities in "Rembrandt", a passed of foolishness that passes as acting and rides by on the immortal representations of Henry VIII and Captain Bligh; and critics are apparently too stunned to realize that Laughton and Korda can fizzle. In the first place the story is a mere chronological biography possessing practically no dramatic force, and in the second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned...