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William Powell plays expertly the vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld...
...vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave the bride away. Intention to found a U. S. church in the Red Capital was definitely abandoned last year after Dr. Walter William Van Kirk of the American Section of the Universal Christian Council went to Moscow and discovered to what lengths Soviet bureaucracy was prepared...
...Libeled Lady' smacks strongly of having been written specifically for the four positive personalities in it. To exploit to the full the talents of William Powell, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, and Myrna Loy, and make those four stars revolve in concentric orbits, some kind of story had to be concocted including, in the above order, a combination of masculinity and dapper suavity, an untamed creature inducing and abounding in excessive primitive passion, a dim-witted but competent piece of virility, and a chilly aristocrat who's a warm little girl after...
...require realism, intertwining is done with remarkable skill. A journalistic slip so incenses Walter Connolly that in behalf of his daughter, Miss Loy, he sues the paper for $5,000,000 to be annexed to his other $50,000,000. Mr. Powell is called upon by Mr. Tracy to mend things, and his strategy involves a nominal marriage with Spencer's longsuffering but not over-patient girl, Miss Harlow. The latter, utterly baffled by William's willingness to let the marriage stay nominal, obeys the cinematic law of things, and decides that she doesn't want it to stay nominal...
...Marry With Love" is no blot on the escutcheons of Warner Baxter or Myrna Loy, for the script's the script--stretch it, pamper it, bolster it as you may. The show starts with the marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she apparently a conventionally affectionate young bride. As the show progressed Baxter remained true to his original type, and to this added occasional drunken sprees which involved him, rather innocently, though not deeply with a gay young thing named Kitty. Naturally this brought chastisement from his wife. But she failed to realize...