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...Didn't You Tell Me? (Marti Stevens; M-G-M). A heartbroken complaint, sung by Newcomer Stevens (TIME, March 8) in a voice that recalls Jane Froman...
...turned out to be a gigantic white elephant. If Actress Leigh's scenes were dropped, what was left? Just barely enough, Producer Irving Asher decided, to provide background for a second shooting of the film on a Hollywood sound stage. Elizabeth Taylor was borrowed from M-G-M to take Vivien's place, and Elephant Walk, new version, was in the cans by mid-May. Total cost: close...
...Saadia (M-G-M). "I will not allow any man to look at my body," moans Saadia (Rita Gam), a Moroccan's daughter, as the kaid (Cornel Wilde) pounds at her portal. The kaid commands. Saadia fearfully slides back the bolt. In rushes the desert chieftain. Has he come to print a searing kiss upon her lips? No, he has merely brought the local French medic (Mel Ferrer), who says that Saadia has acute appendicitis, and proceeds to cut her open...
Rhapsody (M-G-M). Americans have nobler characters than Europeans. All great music was written by either Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff. Artists are the hottest lovers. Good musicians have long hair. All rich people are neurotic. Rhapsody is a relatively harmless tissue of such debatable propositions...
Nowadays. Marti Stevens' performance is beginning to strike the public fancy. She has made a record (for M-G-M), landed a June engagement at London's Colony Club, and is aiming for a fall spot in a Broadway musical. She no longer cares if people know that she is Nick Schenck's daughter: "It gets me into booking offices.'' says she, "but to get a job I have to deliver...