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Above Suspicion (M.G.M.) is something new in Joan Crawford pictures. Instead of setting a special table for her saucer-eyed talents, it all but relegates Miss Crawford to playing stooge to pouty Fred MacMurray. Still worse, Joan's usually endless array of hats is reduced to a bare subsistence level...
Died. James E. MacMurray, 81, long-time president of Acme Steel Corp., who gave over $2,000,000 to Illinois educational institutions; in Pasadena...
...word of parenthetical comment. It is apparently little remembered that pre-revolution Russia's official religion - and consequently "religion" as the Russians understand the term - was about as unchristian a religion as any African mumbo-jumboism. In support of this I offer the following statements made by John MacMurray, eminent professor of moral philosophy at London University (in a review of Julius Hecker's Religion and Communism, in 1934): "I can come ... to only one conclusion and it is a conclusion that all true friends of religion will share - nearly all that religion has been, and has meant...
This celebrity (Rosalind Russell) has been through: 1) heartache for a highflying airman (Fred MacMurray); 2) balm in the arms of a more securely grounded plane designer (Herbert Marshall). Undertaking the Government's secret instructions to lose herself and her plane, she is very, very much surprised to find that her navigator is to be Fred MacMurray. She also learns that the Japanese will find her before the U.S. Navy does. On a New Guinea hotel veranda, to off-stage sounds of tropical storm, she perceives that the way to serve her two men and her country...
...film makes a good technical try for pace, but never really achieves it Russell's and MacMurray's thanks-for-the-memory love junket is as bland as anything the Hays office has swallowed in recent months. But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road. Once, its taste graph dips so low as to show a group of flyers in a back room saluting Rosalind Russell with song...