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Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In 1917 a young Omaha priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan borrowed $90 to start a unique U. S. institution: Boys Town, Neb., a home for waifs, run according to its founder's belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Lately grown acutely conscious of the problems of youth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer naturally found in Boys Town cinematerial well up to the standard of that supplied by the Russell-Cotes naval training institution in England. The result, in this picture, is a companion piece to Lord Jeff, with Mickey Rooney...
Three Loves Has Nancy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). As a Southern chit whose sweetheart has failed to turn up on their wedding day, Janet Gaynor invades New York to bowl over those pillars of penthouse society, Franchot Tone and Robert Montgomery, with naive charm best exemplified when she says grace in a night club...
Rich Man, Poor Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plays patiently with the notion that the really oppressed people in the U. S. are the Great Middle Class-of which, says Lew Ayres, crossing his heart, there are 90,000,000 members. This social philosophy is complicated by the most thoroughly tiresome Cinderella romance of the summer season...
Marie Antoinette (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Married at 14 to the fat grandson (Robert Morley) of Louis XV (John Barrymore), Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer) is bored by court life, with a prince too sluggish to produce an heir. She takes to running about town with the sinister Duc d'Orleans (Joseph Schildkraut), a procedure which leads to a chance meeting with a young Swedish nobleman. Count Axel Fersen (Tyrone Power). Axel and Marie do not hit it off very well at first but a year or two later -just after Marie has made the King angry by calling Madame...
...Chaser (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Remake of a 1933 exposé of ambulance-chasing lawyers-notable, if at all, for Lewis Stone's performance as the shyster hero's whiskey-toping doctor...