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This heiress, Irene Dunne, is an escapist from that "small circle that lives and dies within the circle." The prize fighter, Fred MacMurray, is different from most cine-maulers. What keeps him punching is a firm notion that falling short of the championship in any endeavor is the equivalent of a complete and final washout. For ten years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round...
...latest treatise on New York night life. "Cafe Society," now playing at the Metropolitan, is a gospel on the beauties of the sweet-and-simple life, ranting against the Futility of Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing, it can settle back for an hour or so and enjoy the ermine and champagne...
Hollywood has never been notable for its success in reflecting major social changes. This study of a minor one is no exception to the rule. The story of Cafe Society is the familiar one of a reporter (Fred MacMurray) who marries an heiress (Madeleine Carroll). It achieves the almost incredible distinction of libeling its subject...
Stock vaudeville gag for 25 years because of its funny Indian name, the little city of Kankakee, Ill. (pop. 20,000) was the hometown of the late Pen-&-Inkman Frank D. Waterman, the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Cinemactor Fred MacMurray. Purring contentedly in a crook in the Kankakee River 56 miles south of Chicago, it is proud of its humming industries (overalls, silk stockings, furniture, farm implements), is famed for its huge State insane asylum. Last week Kankakee purred so loudly that the whole nation heard...
...With Wings (Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell; TIME...