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Leading the roster will be Melvyn Douglas, well-known star of sophisticated cafe society comedy films. Representing the directors will be Garson Kanin, who was the brains behind the filming of "The Male Animal," and Rosely Crowther, of the New York, Times, will talk for the critics...
This Cowardly travesty is prittle-prattled by Princess Vicki Wilomirska (Norma Shearer), a penniless Polish refugee, and Baron Nicki Prax (Melvyn Douglas), a penniless Viennese. He aptly describes himself as "a tramp in a white tie"-a professional weekend guest; she is a well-set-up young woman looking for a U.S. millionaire. So they fall in love, marry, live off his rich socialite acquaintances, divorce, remarry after he has become an interior decorator...
...seductive twin sister to win back her husband was called "a threat to the institution of marriage" by church and moral groups, who made M.G.M. take it back and wash its mouth out. Its entire effect was vitiated merely by inserting near the beginning a telephone scene wherein Melvyn Douglas discovers that the flame he is playing with is really his wife. From then on his adulterous activities become husbandly jesting acceptable to the thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails to offend, but fails to excite. The best fun in seeing...
...late, newspapers have been noticeably long on mud-slinging in their news and Washington columns, and short on constructive comment from the editorial page. They abound with insidious feature material to imply that because Mayris Chaney has danced in night clubs she is unfit for civilian defense, that because Melvyn Douglas is a Hollywood box-office star we must discount his impressive record as administrator and youth-sponsor, that because Jane Seaver is an acquaintance of Eleanor Roosevelt she is incapable of work in national morale...
...playmate-protégé who roused the first angry shouts was personable, politically ambitious Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas (real name: Melvyn Hesselberg). First it was announced that he was going to be in charge of information for OCD. Then OCD said Mr. Douglas was actually going to look after OCD's art division, at the rate of $8,000 a year (when he worked at it; he is still in the movies). Straightway Congress sounded off. He's a Red, cried California's Leland Ford. He isn't, either, cried California's Jerry Voorhis. This...