Word: melvyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give a fine performance in "Mary Burns, Fugitive". The title sounds ridiculously like a dime novel and the story follows that pattern but it is well worth seeing anyway if you like gangsters and strong-minded hero-explorers. Sylvia is much better looking with her hair fixed and Melvyn Douglas is excellent as the man whom she would like to marry if she could but can't because she has been in jail. They marry anyhow...
...Allen Baxter dashes all over the country killing people, and still he does not win the hearts of his audience. No one feels the slightest twinge of romantic sorrow when Sylvia Sydney shoots him to death in the scene before she is united to a tweedy author and explorer, Melvyn Douglas...
...Female" has done even worse by Claudette Colbert in her latest vehicle. But don't let the tittle scare you away from "She Married Her Boss." In it Miss Colbert demonstrates once again that she is the first comedy actress of the screen, and she gets able support from Melvyn Douglas and the rest of the cast...
...store windows) are done. Vicarious satisfaction and a lot of laughs are the result. Efficient and mechanical, Julia Scott (Miss Colbert) runs a department store office that gets cut of hand as soon as she leaves. But her suppressed desire is to marry her boss, the aristocratic Richard Barclay (melvyn Douglas), who is as efficient as she and even more mechanical. In this she succeeds, clearing up a nice domestic mess (spoiled child, neurotic sister, filching servants, and all) on the side, only to find that she is a wife in name only. Julia's efforts to shake her husband...
...escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss Sidney, shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts who are not ruffled by uneven pacing and exaggerated detail, Mary Burns, Fugitive has enough taut sequences to be entertaining...