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...Date with Judy (MGM...
This semi-farcical rehash of Madame X, etc. might have been an entertaining movie, but it is done without gaiety, irony, style or even simple fun. MGM, long the world's No. 1 star-polisher, has mishandled the stars in the show. Elizabeth Taylor, who is just beginning to move into grownup roles, is one of the loveliest girls in movies; but here she is made-up and hair-done and directed into tired, tiresome conventional prettiness. Miss Garson has beauty, vitality and professional know-how. These are all visible, yet the performance is almost never joyous or even...
Luxury Liner (MGM) floats Metro's musical stock company in a welter of romantic complications which could be followed only with a navigation chart. The tangles are slowly and rather painfully unsnarled to the accompaniment of songs by Lauritz Melchior, Marina Koshetz and young Jane Powell, who is expected to carry the burden of a clumsy plot about a sea captain (George Brent) and his amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot...
...Happy Ending? Speaking for the whole industry, MGM's Dore Schary, formerly Mitchum's boss at RKO, pleaded with the public not to "indict the entire working personnel of 32,000 well-disciplined and clean-living American citizens." A widespread use of narcotics in the industry? "Shocking, capricious and untrue...
...Date with Judy (MGM) features a song called Strictly on the Corny Side, which might serve as the movie's theme song. Date has a few moments of appealing teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery...