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...They Were Married (Columbia) begins with a conflict between a divorcee (Mary Astor) and a widower (Melvyn Douglas), who pretend to dislike each other when they find themselves temporarily snowbound in a winter resort, quickly draws into the conflict the woman's small daughter (Edith Fellows), the man's small son (Jackie Moran). Having estranged their elders, the children manage to unite them once more by getting them jailed as suspected kidnappers...
...Lone Wolf has returned for the ast time, apparently, since he has got himself married in this interesting picture about a jewel thief who reforms and marries the intended victim. We are rather glad Melvyn Douglas met Gail Patrick and decided to change his taking ways because there have been so many 'best jewel thiefs in all of Europe" on the screen in the last two years that we were getting rather confused. The butler and valet have come into an increasingly important role in many stores lately and Raymond Walburn justifies his promotion to the rank of valet...
...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...
...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...