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True Confession (Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore; TIME...
Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) had to tell lies. She did not always gain by lying; she often lost, but she had to tell lies because her way of seeing things made them so fascinating, so endlessly fecund in rich if fanciful possibilities. Her husband, Kenneth (Fred MacMurray), was entirely different. He was the kind of lawyer who would volunteer to defend a truckman against the charge of stealing hams-but refuse when he found out his fee was to be paid from the sale of the hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter...
...mind, last week was almost his last chance to reconsider his stand. Appointed by President Roosevelt partly in response to the urgings of President Quezon that the subject of advancing the date of Independence be reopened, a Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine Affairs, headed by Ambassador John Van Antwerp MacMurray, after a month touring the islands was by last week nearing the end of its job: to examine political and economic means of arranging the transition to complete Philippine independence with the least possible discomfort to U. S. industries and Philippine inhabitants. The Committee, mostly composed of specialists...
...engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve when he and Maggie team in an act, celebrate its sensational success by marriage, improve even further when a Broadway scout (Charles Arnt) offers Skid...
...rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard of the ones she had in My Man Godfrey; and reminding cinemaddicts that Fred MacMurray, who can really play a trombone, got his start in cinema after a five-year career as a member of the California Collegians. Most maudlin shot: Skid's response to the information that Maggie is going to leave him-tooting Mendelssohn's Wedding March discordantly in a hotel corridor...