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...virtue of this production is the Cleopatra of Carrie Nye. As she is made up, she looks surprisingly like our current screen Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor; and she has the added advantage of acting ability. Miss Nye can take her place beside her distinguished predecessors in the role--Gertrude Elliott, Lilli Palmer, and Vivien Leigh...
...figures of the classical school. Producer Disney declares categorically: "These horses are human.'' They are at any rate more intelligent than most of the people connected with his picture. Any donkey could have written the script ("These horses are very unique in the world"). The supporting players (Lilli Palmer. Curt Jurgens. Eddie Albert) are obviously off their feed. And Actor Taylor-well, frankly, a horse that acts the way he does would instantly be shipped to the glue factory...
Paul Ukena in the leading role of Fred Graham (and Petruchio) sings resonantly and employs unusually clear diction. His voice is well produced throughout his range. Elaine Malbin shows considerable skill as an actress in the part of Lilli Vanessi (and Katherine). Miss Malbin, however, might be shown to better advantage in a conventional theatre where her diminutive stature would not convey the slightly plump appearance it does on an arena state. Her voice seems to have lost power in its lower range over the last two years without compensating gains...
...Traitor describes how Erickson (William Holden) was shanghaied into espionage by the Allies, how he made "business trips" to Germany and reported what he saw and heard, how he came to hate the Nazis and to like his work, how he fell in love with a companion in espionage (Lilli Palmer), how he was betrayed by a nasty Nazi schoolboy but was rescued and smuggled to Sweden...
Astaire sneers delectably at a photograph of Tab in a football suit, sniffs at the gaudy ties of Lilli's current husband, Gary Merrill, and even changes the weight regulator on the man's Exercycle. What's worse, charming rakehell that he is (though never as arch, mocking or sphinxlike as Cyril Ritchard was onstage), he tries to freeze Tab out and lure his daughter away with promised trips to Venice, Positano and the Aegean Isle where Rupert Brooke is buried. At one painful moment, father and daughter, after a gay, French-talking night on the town...