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...White (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stays well inside the stern plot of Sidney Kingsley's play which is one of this year's strong contenders for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. George Ferguson (Clark Gable) is an able young surgeon interning at St. George's Hospital. His fiancee, Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), feels that he pays too much attention to his job, too little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White...
...shiny washrooms, its clean corridors and the house telephone service to get in the way of a simple, disagreeable story. More outspoken and more serious than the cinemas of the hospital saga of a year or two ago, the film is a harrowingly honest document. Good shot: Laura Hudson learning the lesson Dr. Hochberg wants to teach her, from Dr. Ferguson's impatient fury when she touches him, sterile after his scrub-up, with her bare hands in the operating room...
...plot of the picture deals with the adventures of an old rake in love with a young bud. Conway Tearle, as Max, the rake, is rightly cast and capable. His fortunes are complicated by the presence of Winifred (Katharine Alexander), who has for some time been his mistress and Laura (Alice Brady), who imagines herself to have been his mistress once. These two women scorned, naturally feel internally agitated at being cut out by a more twig, the niece of one, the daughter of the other. Alice Brady, in her role of a flighty and almost mindless but well-meaning...
...husband. Insurance Broker Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she married Dec. 12, 1928 and with whom she lives in Manhattan at No. 244 East 49th St.,† she says to interviewers: "I am not married and never was." In Hollywood, Katharine Hepburn lives on a chicken farm with her friend Laura Harding, goes to no parties, calls herself an exhibitionist because she likes to wear overalls to work. When she returns to cinema, she will perform first as Queen Elizabeth, later as Joan...
...fearful. Leone makes kittenish advances to Max Lawrence (Conway Tearle), the middle-aged lover of her Aunt Winkie (Katharine Alexander). When Aunt Winkie, Leone, Geoffrey and Max arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom she spent a happy night before her marriage. A gay, trivial, skillfully situated matrimonial comedy derived from last season's play The Vinegar Tree, Should Ladies Behave is most amusing when it shows...