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...Suzanne (Fox), is the third U. S. film made by Lilian Harvey, small, slim English-born actress who made her reputation in a German film, Congress Dances. Like most of Jesse L. Lasky's productions for Fox, it is aimed at what Hollywood calls "class" audiences. Partly a masterpiece and partly a mess, I Am Suzanne is unique among this season's musical pictures because it strives for satiric fantasy instead of a high-priced combination of pornography and farce. Its most important actors are not humans but the Piccoli puppets (TIME...
When Suzanne (Lilian Harvey) breaks a leg dancing, her rascally stage manager loses all interest in her welfare. A group of puppeteers take care of her and the scion (Gene Raymond) of the chief puppeteer falls in love with her. The rest of I Am Suzanne deals with Suzanne's uneasy feeling that Tony is really in love not with her but with a puppet portrait he has made of her. The mocking dances of his marionettes and her fiancé's dreamy affinity with them first confuse, then anger her. When her leg has mended enough...
...same time gently parodies it. Where the mood of the picture collapses is in such scenes as the one showing the puppet of Suzanne turning ridiculously into the real Suzanne on the stage of a theatre, the one of a heavy-handed adagio dance in which pretty little Lilian Harvey is tossed about like a beanbag by chorus boys. Good sequence: Suzanne's night mare, when she is dozing in her theatre dressing room, of her trial for murder by a court of furious, scornful puppets...
...Lilian Bond, a pneumatic British beauty newly recruited from the cinema, stretches and slinks through the part of Yvonne, and hard-working Brian Donlevy has been baking himself under sun-ray lamps for weeks to make his performance as the rutting Charles more effective. The audience left with two mysteries still unsolved: why normally acute William Harris Jr. should have found the script worthy of production; what the mysterious blonde who appeared briefly during the first act and was never mentioned by the cast, had to do with...
Married. Mary Lilian Uppercu. daughter of Inglis M. Uppercu, Cadillac agent; and George Winthrop Haight, Manhattan lawyer; in Rumson...