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...begged Producer Goldwyn to take their names off it, returned the money he had paid them. Director William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after reading the script LaCava left the lot. Andrea Leeds, a bit player, announced that she would rather starve than...
...Woman I Love (RKO). Lieutenant Jean Herbillion (Louis Hayward), the night before he goes to join his escadrille, falls in love with a handsome Parisienne (Miriam Hopkins) who tells him her name is Denise. At the front, he becomes the close friend and plane-mate of a moody pilot named Lieutenant Claude Maury (Paul Muni). When Herbillion goes on leave, Maury gives him a note for his wife, Hélène Maury. Hélène and Denise turn out to be the same person. The triangle is straightened out when, back at the front, Herbillion gets...
Aside from rather meaningless titles, the two films at Keith's Memorial this week-end present the best rounded twin bill we've witnessed this season. "The Woman I Love", starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins, tells the story of the usual love triangle against a background of the front line trenches on the Soissons sector in 1917, while "We Have Our Moments", a gay and riotous farce of twenty years later, put the audience in giggles the moment the news reel before it subsided and left many in the aisles exhausted at the end of the hour...
...battle he falls victim to the distrust of his squadron mates, who believe him jinxed. Louis Hayward, a fellow officer, strikes up a friendship with him and makes his machine gunner in several brilliant air-raids. Meanwhile, in Paris and at camp, Hayward has fallen in love with Miriam Hopkins, Muni's wife, and this time it's no design for living. A situation that sacrifices the friendship of the two men on the altar of a woman's love can only result in the death of one of the lovers, and with superb irony it is Hayward who dies...
...said he, "must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless." Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins...