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...casting, the film lends itself to an unfortunate study in contrast. For though Loretta Young may be the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, Robert Preston certainly rates as one of the most repulsive of box-office gorillas. As a naive Quaker schoolmarm from back East, Miss Young artfully rouses the respectable citizens of her infant boomtown against the skullduggery of Boss Edward Arnold; while Preston, his number one yes-man, stumbles haplessly through the routine of love and reformation...
...lady is prim, pretty Annie Morgan (Loretta Young), Quaker schoolma'am, who manages to ogle a choice lot out of Steve Lewis (Robert Preston), a lazy lawyer auctioning off land for Jim Cork (Edward Arnold), local tyrant, political boss, saloon keeper in the frontier town of Laraville...
...picture adds up to a series of uninspiring maneuvers by an expensive, experienced cast-or lollypopeyed Loretta Young in a Western...
...Stayed for Breakfast," variation allegro on the Ninotchka theme, casts McIvyn Douglas as the party-liner seduced by the very un-proletarian charms of Loretta Young. Catching the flavor of a Paris that is no more, the film combines the wit of the French with the crackling pace of the American movies. But indeed ironic is the script's playful treatment of a political force which contributed so much to the downfall of that Paris which it eulogizes...
...Married. Loretta Young, 27, veteran cinemactress; and Thomas H. Lewis, 38, radio advertising man; in Westwood, Calif.; she for the second time, he for the first...