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...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a re-make and a prissy fumigation of Bayard Veiller's famed courtroom drama which in 1929 became Norma Shearer's first all-talking picture. Mary Dugan this time is pretty young Laraine Day (of the Doctor Kildare series), whom M. G. M. is building toward the Big Time. And Mary Dugan this time isn't a girl who has become a kept woman to help her brother get educated. She is a virgin stenographer. Many other changes have been made to produce the morality play-which badly drags...
Come Live With Me (Metro-GoId-wyn-Mayer) is a farfetched, whimsical comedy about a struggling young author (James Stewart) who marries a Viennese refugee (Hedy Lamarr) to save her from deportation. Complication: the man Wife Lamarr really wants to marry is a publisher (Ian Hunter) who buys Husband Stewart's book. It is no surprise to anybody when, after making off with Hedy, Husband Stewart persuades her to change her mind...
Many Harvard men have urged the writing of such a book, notably President Conant, who unofficially guaranteed that the sale would be high, probably over ten thousand copies. Five publishing houses are bidding for the book, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studies are considering putting the story in the movies...
...Philadelphia Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Come on back, Katie, all is forgiven. This absolution was spoken last fortnight by one Harry Brandt, an independent Manhattan cinema theatre owner who two years ago gave Hollywood the jitters by proscribing Actress Katharine Hepburn and ten other cinemarvels as box-office poison. Mr. Brandt's reprieve came after watching the longest line in the eight-year history of the Radio City Music Hall queued up during a spell of foul weather to pay top prices for a view of Miss Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. When, after its first four days...
Comrade X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) takes care of the movies' left-over jokes on Communism and the electricity generated by the combined presence of Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. Gable, as the footloose correspondent of a U. S. paper, finds himself involved in the political intrigue of the U. S. S. R. That also includes Miss Lamarr who strolls placidly through the role of a Soviet streetcar motorman intent on the cause. Scripters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer's picture of bungling and dawdling inside the Soviet is a lot less witty, and less tender than Greta Garbo...