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Arise, My Love (Paramount) turns the neat trick of setting a comedy against the background of current events in Europe. Its principal device is to hustle a carefree American aviator (Irish-born Ray Milland) and a beauteous American reporter (French-born Claudette Colbert) through a series of romantic interludes spiced with lines whose moral and political implications would have made the Hays office of a year ago writhe in righteous indignation. While Milland is escaping from a Spanish prison camp, drinking with Miss Colbert in Paris just prior to the outbreak of war, and making love in the forest...
...others fed (at $7.50 a head) decorative celebrities and the prominent press. Among the 400 eaters: Hearst's Polly Prying Louella Parsons, Columnists Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler, Comic Jack Benny, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (his balding head swathed in a pirate's bandanna), Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour (who had dressed up in a pirate costume that afternoon for photographers), and Fox's smart, hand-pumping Publicity Chief Harry Brand...
Though the old Cinderella story alone always makes good entertainment, in "Irene" music, beauty, and a behemoth colored-mammy jitterbug are thrown in for good measure. Anna Neagle is the starryeyed girl with an Irish brogue who falls into fairyland. Ray Milland and Alan Marshall are the tail-coated sheiks who try to catch her. And when Ellis Island and Plymouth Rock don't quite fit together, May Robson is there to prove that you can't stop an O'Dair from the County Clare after he's caught sight of a goal or a bottle. As granny...
...second feature "French Without Tears" takes a mediocre stage play and turns it into comedy that can almost be called good. There are just a few too many British accents--Ray Milland included--but the chaps are mighty sporting underneath...
...everybody knows it will all end with Ray Milland (a psychologist) leading Loretta Young (a bachelor girl) to the altar, the problem is to provide enough comedy antics to keep the customers awake until the wedding. Cinemactor Milland and the dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...