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...everybody knows it will all end with Ray Milland (a psychologist) leading Loretta Young (a bachelor girl) to the altar, the problem is to provide enough comedy antics to keep the customers awake until the wedding. Cinemactor Milland and the dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...
This one is about David Niven as a magician whose hand is ever so much quicker than Broderick Crawford's eye. Result: he gets the gal, Loretta Young in this case. The old chestnut about the society girl running off with an entertainer is once again with us, but aside from a few emotional lapses, the picture is good...
...magician, a pretty, home-loving girl, a threadbare plot--that is the whole of "Eternally Yours". It all hinges about Loretta Young, whose change from historic thrillers to modern nondescript is much for the worse. In this lovodrama, she has to choose between a boring suitor and a crafty magician. The snave charlatan, David Niven, offers here excitement and some other things, too. With him, she is whiled through a hectic Hollywoodian adventure; they cruise around the world, sometimes doing parlor tricks, sometimes performing feats of magic. Back at home, though, the other suitor waits, offering her his stolid security...
...faced stiffer competition since his valuable partner Frank Joyce died two years ago and since Leland Hayward, Margaret Sullavan's husband, pulled out of the Selznick partnership. Last year Hollywood gasped when 20th Century-Fox's President Joseph M. Schenck, exasperated with Selznick's demands for Loretta Young, ordered him off the Fox lot. So far, the only person who has caught Myron Selznick napping is his friend and client, Carole Lombard. Renewing her contract with him recently, Cinemactress Lombard had printed a duplicate contract under which Selznick agreed to pay her 10% of his earnings, tricked...
...romantics, Laurence Olivier (who resembles Ronald Colman and snarls like Clark Gable) and Valerie Hobson (who looks and loves like Loretta Young) pout and make up in proper Hollywood style. But the show-stealing star of Clouds over Europe is bland, slightly-potty, all-round Actor Ralph Richardson (Things to Come, The Divorce of Lady X, The Citadel...