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Anyone seeing this picture will undoubtedly have the feeling that he has seen it before. The stars are Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray but they might just as well be Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas or any other appropriate combination of light sophisticates. The story is the now hackneyed one of the beautiful business executive who has everything she wants but love, which is provided by a man with broad shoulders who treats her with perfect nonchalance...

Author: By R. A. K., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Melvyn Douglas and Norma Shearer should have shared some of their fun with the audience. Dancing through the hearts, not to mention the pocketbooks, of the befuddled rich must have been a lot of fun; it couldn't have been as dull in life as it was in film. The featured stars didn't seem to have much trouble supporting themselves by entertaining society, but if their real life subsistence depends on the popularity of "We Were Dancing" Mr. Douglas better keep his next government job and Miss Shearer better get married...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 6/3/1942 | See Source »

...must do with words and pictures and symbols what as done in England with German bombs in order to stimulate American morale to a war pitch," Melvyn Douglas, noted actor, stated last night in a forum of prominent motion picture figures held in New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACTOR TELLS ROLE OF CINEMA IN WAR | 5/1/1942 | See Source »

...forum in New Lecture Hall tonight several prominent figures of the motion picture industry will speak on the problems of war facing people in the arts, especially the films. Melvyn Douglas will represent the actors. Garson Kauin the film directors, and Richard Ford director of the British Library of information will speak in place of Bosley Crowther New York "Times" critic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Experts to Speak | 4/30/1942 | See Source »

...Come to Hollywood?" A forum sponsored by the Harvard Film Society, featuring Melvyn Douglas, Garson Kanin, and Richard Ford. Direct from New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 4/30/1942 | See Source »

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