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...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...sure-fire for its own good. It has some faint hints of realistic rustic meanness and kindliness. It also has moments of innocently ribald energy which may not be wholly authentic to the backwoods, but are pretty good as lively, half-demented comedy. Against its bits of honest humor, MacMurray's portrait of a stock Hollywood goof and Miss Colbert's skilled smirking over situations which might better have been played straight look flashily flimsy and false. The picture has a lot of fun in it, but it will be most amusing to those who are content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main, as decayed neighbors, are worked for a good deal of the great deal they are worth. The plot also bears down hard on MacMurray's interest (invented for the screen) in a rich lady farmer (Louise Allbritton) who drives a station wagon. It ends, happily, as soon as Miss Colbert has battled nature just long & hard enough to harvest her first baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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