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...already classic love scenes, some will find them highly instructive, while other will just be overpowered. But nobody will deny that, with the exception of the Joel McCrra-Jean Arthur neeking in "The More the Merrier" a few years back, they are the best of their kind ever filmed. In addition, the first, biggest, and meatiest of these shows dramatic technique at its best, for, its local pictorial merits to the side, it is also an indispensable and cleverly contrived part of the plot's development...
...thrilled and I am grateful." For his anti-Nazi stand in Watch on the Rhine, grave-toned Paul Lukas led the men. Other statuettes: 1) best film of 1943, Casablanca; 2) best director, Casablanca's Michael Curtiz; 3) best supporting actor, Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier; 4) best supporting actress, Greek-born Katina Paxinou-for her fire-&-ice Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...happening in the marble palace where once sat the solemn Nine Old Men. Solemnly, the staid New York Times deplored "the unstable Court . . . with its recent astonishing record of dissents . . . confusion and uncertainty." Sardonic, pink-faced Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took a slightly merrier view. He pictured the Justices as a bunch of middle-aged gamins, pinking one another's skulls with legal slingshots...
...preference for the pictures marked Male over those marked Female. The AMPS judges that its clientele prefers, in order: 1) musicals with girls; 2) comedies; 3) service films. Adds one AMPS man: "Even the colonels like Disney." Army favorites for May: Lady of Burlesque, White Savage, More the Merrier, The Human Comedy...
...More the Merrier (Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Joel McCrea; TIME...