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Please Believe Me (MGM) has the kind of plot that has given musicomedy books a bad name for years. Since this is not a musicomedy but a screwball farce, the series of studiously rigged romantic misunderstandings is even harder to take. Three suitors (Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) scramble for the hand of an improvident heiress (Deborah Kerr). There are some fleeting laughs, Heroine Kerr's natural charm and a fairly amusing performance by Actor Lawford, but what the picture badly lacks is songs, dances and a lot of rewriting on the road...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, with Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Ian Hunter...
...Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little Beth once more wastes away, bravely and wistfully, to an early death...
...Only her daughter (Elizabeth Taylor), who sneaked mother the invitation, is thoroughly human. Julia misbehaves with a rounder (Nigel Bruce) in order to buy presents for the child; she also helps negotiate the girl out of the arms of her fiance into those of her true love (Peter Lawford). Finally Julia winds up in a mudhole, laughing her head off, in testimonial of love reborn, at Mr. Pidgeon...
...Island with You (MGM) is a harmless little hot-weather cooler, filmed in a watery Technicolor haze. Sarongs are worn by the girls (Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse) and summer whites by the men (Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight...