Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life of Her Own (MGM) brings Lana Turner back to the movies after a two-year absence - and may make her wish she had stayed away longer. The film is an old-fashioned tearjerker about the eternal triangle and a woman's sacrifice, played to the interminable accompaniment of caterwauling cellos...
...Duchess of Idaho (MGM) is an Esther Williams musical, i.e., a pretty body of water surrounded by clichés. It shows plenty of the human form, mostly Swimmer Williams', against the travel-folder backdrop of Sun Valley in Technicolor. The makeshift plot stops and goes at the convenience of the songs, dances and fancy splashing...
...Father of the Bride (MGM...
...Annie Get Your Gun (MGM...
Please Believe Me (MGM) has the kind of plot that has given musicomedy books a bad name for years. Since this is not a musicomedy but a screwball farce, the series of studiously rigged romantic misunderstandings is even harder to take. Three suitors (Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) scramble for the hand of an improvident heiress (Deborah Kerr). There are some fleeting laughs, Heroine Kerr's natural charm and a fairly amusing performance by Actor Lawford, but what the picture badly lacks is songs, dances and a lot of rewriting on the road...