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Gilbert Adrian, who was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head dressmaker for 15 years and now has become simply Adrian, opened his divine new pink and blue couturier's salon in Beverly Hills last week at about the time that fighting men of the United Nations were raiding Dieppe...
Moviegoers knew it. Hollywood knew it. Louis B. Mayer finally said it. Warning his moviemakers to find fresh replacements for the male actors who are fast being taken by the Army & Navy. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head man admitted: "Audiences are tired of some of our old faces. They've been looking at them too long...
...Married An Angel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) vigorously rubs the bloom from the wings of the brisk, fresh, imaginative musical that ran on Broadway four years ago. Then it had bounce, charm, a good Rodgers & Hart score, and the electric presence of grave, ashen, graceful Vera Zorina, every man's idea of a down-to-earth angel. M.G.M.'s cineversion has the R. & H. melodies (ponderously played), Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, and a fantastically mutilated plot...
...Miniver (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is that almost impossible feat, a great war picture that photographs the inner meaning, instead of the outward realism of World War II. Director William Wyler succeeds by the simple device of setting up an ideal middle-class English family in an ideal middle-class home, letting the Nazis knock both down. Result: what the Nazi bombers finally smash is not a house and household but (temporarily) man's hope of happiness...
Tortilla Flat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a picaresque tale of life among squalid California paisanos, has had an odd history...