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...stuck in an under brush of plot complications. Given this bad material to work with, Lubitsch has made the worst of it. He has miscast both Miss Jones and Boyer in light comedy parts, and his attempts at satirizing English high-life seem ponderous, especially when handled by Peter Lawford and Helen Walker. Add to this a further attempt at satire in the person of a priggish druggist which comes out sinister rather than funny, and you have most of what's wrong with "Cluny Brown...
...current opus are: Lauritz Melchior as a tubby (what else?), good-hearted-but-tending-to-be-grouchy-at-first baritone; long (vintage 1900) skirts; an opera rustled up by California technicians from odd bits of orchestral music by Lizst and Mendelssohn and sung patently in English; Peter Lawford as a timid male debutant who calls a girl "darling" because it turns out she can speak Greek; and many others of lesser note...
...helping hands off defective drains no matter what the social circumstances. In fact, she seems incapable of learning "her place." This combination of ability and inability becomes acutely embarrassing when she goes into service for one of the better county families (Reginald Owen, Margaret Bannerman and Scion Peter Lawford...
...divorce from Husband Steve Crane, 2) reported trysts with Cinemactor John Hodiak (Lifeboat), 3) a pressagent's dream that her new hairdo would be adopted as the WACs' G.I.-blew up all over a Hollywood nightclub when a photographer caught her dancing with her escort, Actor Peter Lawford...
...ball beyond an opponent's reach. But Dick Sears developed what he called "a mild form of volleying," took delight in tapping the ball "first to one side and then to the other, running my opponent all over the court." He also introduced to U.S. tennis the "Lawford stroke," a forehand topspin drive he copied from a British player who had defeated...