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Your review of My Little Chicadee [TIME, Feb. 26] reads: "highly staminate Flower Belle, Mae West...
Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie, and Betty Field as Mae, give an emotionally high-strung performance without ever falling into sentimentality or affectation. An exceptionally successful use of sound effects and close-ups occasionally stretches the nerves of the audience to the breaking point. But it is not these technical niceties, not even the heartfelt acting, which make "Of Mice And Men" a great picture. It is its bare-faced simplicity, its unpretentions conception of the relations between mind and man, between man and annual. For once, the movie industry has gone...
...Fields, of the red face and ad-libbing tongue, steals the show this week at Keith's Memorial. As Guthbert J. Twillie, he teams up with oomphy Mae West in what amounts to a series of bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order...
HOLLYWOOD--Mae Murray, former silent screen beauty who testified her career reversed the rags to riches role, late today was granted $400 monthly support for her 15-year old son, Koran David Mdivani, from his father, Prince David Mdivani, New York...
Cuthbert J. Twillie is first-rate W. C. Fields' clowning, which is proof enough that one of the coolest heads in show business surmounts Cinemactress West's opulent curves. For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan. She let Funnyman Fields write in his own part, ad lib to his heart's content. Best ad lib was carefully excised from the picture. Murmured Fields one day to the goat which he mistakes for Flower Belle: "Darling, have...