Word: loy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wife v. Secretary (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a grimly stereotyped investigation, without novel outcome, of the banal situation indicated by its title. Adapted by Norman Krasna, Alice Duer Miller and John Lee Mahin from a Faith Baldwin story, acted by Clark Gable, Myrna Loy (wife) and Jean Harlow (secretary), it is patently destined to be, for its producers, if not for their more civilized customers, one of the most profitable pictures of the year...
...writers like Rupert Hughes, from whose story it was adapted. There is the behind-the-scenes politician (George Raft) whose heart is as big as his racing stable, the patrician young lady (Rosalind Russell) whom he loves, and her unpleasant husband (Alan Dinehart). Rosalind Russell, till a rookie Myrna Loy, and Raft, whose arrogance may be taken as an expression of his delight at not having to do a rumba
...Whipsaw", a happy modification of the G man type of picture, finds a greatly modulated Spencer Tracy, still cocky and assertive but minus the usual swagger and braggadocio. Myrna Loy, playing opposite him, also appears in a more appealing role than is her wont. In itself this picture would offer sufficient reason for attending the University this week...
...Whipsaw the hero and heroine are kept out of the same bed because Tracy believes Miss Loy is involved in a robbery, and it is therefore his duty to treat her as a Federal operative must treat any subject under surveillance; because Miss Loy knows that Tracy, in spite of his pose as a fellow criminal, is really a sleuth. Dialog wavers back & forth between flippant, Grade A exchanges between Miss Loy and Tracy, and sad C-minus stretches where the crooks make remarks like, "We're hep to the whole layout...
Love finally blossoms in a farmhouse where Miss Loy and Tracy, stranded by a storm, help the farmer's wife through the ordeal of bearing twins. Even quintuplets would not have made Whipsaw important, but Myrna Loy's charm and Tracy's skillful underplaying are assets that no picture can have...