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...Maggie McNamara as a fetching and demure ingenue is picked up by man-of-the-world William Holden, who lures her into his apartment. Socialite David Niven enters to aid in the seduction. And though no more dissolute and jaded a rake could be found east of Fifth Avenue, Miss McNamara remains secure in her faith that feminine right will conquer masculine might. By the end of the film, the rake is reclaimed and virtue triumphant...
...Miss McNamara is a Shavian adolescent transplanted to American and come of age. She is an excellent cook; "cleanliness next to Godliness," she says, and subscribes to Tennyson's three virtues of faith, hope and chastity. Added to these is a charming sophistication; she speaks knowingly of a "mother instinct," and has gone to school of Freud and D. H. Lawrence...
...sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this transformation, and participates with gusto in the vindication of morality over vice...
...heroine, Maggie McNamara has a pert, wide-eyed, fresh-scrubbed charm. David Niven is appropriately debonair as the playboy. In the role of the architect, William Holden does one of his easy, authoritative acting jobs, that is all the more effective for not seeming like acting at all. The trio of leading characters appear as likable, essentially well-behaved people, in a picture that is always sophisticated, literate and in good taste...
...order introduced before the Cambridge City Council Monday afternoon, Councillor Thomas M. McNamara condemned the Corporation "for retaining instructors and professors who have been proven members of a subversive organization or who flaunted and defled the constituted authority of the Congress of the United States...