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Director Mitchell Leisen obviously went to extraordinary lengths to make Kitty's costumes, props and sets look like the real thing. He could hardly have been more reverent in evoking the proper atmosphere had he been doing a story of Elsie Dinsmore...
...kind of thing Rosalind Russell has been do.ng in a series of career-woman pictures, most of which have made rather unfunny use of her firm talent for comedy. This time she has the welcome assistance of a first-rate Claude Binyon script, the expert direction of J. Mitchell Leisen, and a chorus of sweet supporting performers. Result: a very funny full-dress comedy...
Dawn's three principals are so perfectly cast that they seem to have been especially equipped to play their roles. Miss de Havilland's performance and some of the film's minor business are artfully done. If Director Mitchell Leisen and Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. had been content to strip the picture of its elaborate frills (e.g., a prolonged cops-&-robbers chase, a native festival) and tell it simply, it might have been Grade...
Joan Crawford (Sun. 7:30 p. m. CBS), Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Reginald Gardiner, Ralph Morgan, Mitchell Leisen, Morrie Ryskind contribute their services to the first program of Gulf Oil Corp.'s series of Screen Actors' Guild benefits...
...Ball Sr. is the hotel owner's chief creditor and that she has been invited to live there because the proprietor of the hat shop (Franklin Pangborn) has spread the rumor that she is J. B. Ball's mistress. In Easy Living this situation serves under Mitchell Leisen's adroit direction as the framework for one of the season's silliest and most entertaining farces which reaches its climax when Mary Smith invades J. B. Ball's Broad Street office with three sheep dogs at the moment when he is trying to repair the damage...