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...Hollywood standards. He would listen to MGM's ideas on filming his Brideshead Revisited; if he didn't like the sound of them, he could suggest changes; if the changes weren't suitable, he could just go sell the book to someone else. Meantime, M-G-M had contracted to maintain him in the most luxurious possible style...
...Yearling (M-G-M), a dazzling Technicolored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' 1939 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is one of the year's most ambitious films. It has been put together with great care, a shrewd eye for beauty and showmanship, impressive technical skill, and a staggering outlay of trouble and money. The result is not quite Art, but it is certainly fancy-quality movie...
Till the Clouds Roll By (M-G-M), a glamorized biography of the late Jerome Kern, piles Ossa on Pelion, Mt. Everest on top of that, and garnishes with a couple of dozen minor ranges. It is not exactly strong on story. The only clouds in Composer Kern's life-Broadway's onetime preference for English tunes, and Kern's avuncular concern over his arranger's problem daughter-seem to have been no bigger than a man's hand, and just about as unusual. But for those who like popular music and attractive...
Some 25 of the pleasanter personalities M-G-M owns or could snag for the occasion are on hand, and they go through about two dozen of Kern's graceful, contagious tunes, neck-deep in sumptuous production. Van Johnson does a highly self-appreciative song& -dance-looking, unfortunately, a little as if he should be carrying a roast apple in his mouth. Judy Garland is charming as the late Marilyn Miller and still more charming when she sings Who? Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time...
...Monsieur Beaucaire (Paramount), Holiday in Mexico (M-G-M), The Big Sleep (Warner), Canyon Passage (Universal) and Till the End of Time (RKO Radio...