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...Spats are coming back," announced Adolphe Menjou. "So are walking sticks...
...Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew Pearsonish columnist, is no more effective than Pearson would be playing...
However, deviations from the Lindsey and Crouse satire are fortunately few, and though the "State of the Union" doesn't always succeed, it never quite sceedes. Adolphe Menjou has apparently profited from his recent star-chamber experience for he is convincing as a machine politician. Whether machines are as harmless as Tracy suggests is still unclear. Yet though his head is in the clouds, his toes are down among the grass roots, and no self-respectin' man or woman can failed to be moved...
When Chairman Thomas asked, a little self-consciously, what Menjou thought of charges that the committee is trying to censor movies, Menjou reassured him: "I think that is infantile and juvenile; it couldn't be made by any man with the intelligence of a louse...
Names & Numbers. As Witness Menjou stepped down, Chairman Thomas declared a two-minute recess. After that Man of Distinction, anyone else was bound to be something of an anticlimax. The next witnesses felt their fate but did their best. Esquire's Movie Critic John Charles Moffitt fired in all directions...