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Dancers in the Dark (Paramount). Blonde Miriam Hopkins makes her living by cavorting in a 10¢ dance hall. When partners are scarce, she entertains the customers by crooning. Her promiscuous past, well-known to practically every member of the orchestra, does not prevent its chief saxophone player (William Collier Jr.) from proposing marriage. Complication is injected when the band leader (Jack Oakie), long a friend of Collier, tries to break up the union. Action is kept at a swift pace by lust, robbery, off-stage murder and, finally, the shooting of Oakie by a gun-toting habitue of the dance...
...director who did this motley piece of work, with its impressive pantomine and its empty dialogue; had able assistants to insure a good evening for the audience: the gifted photography of Mr. Karl Struss and the gifted pornography of Miss Miriam Hopkins...
...doors which open on an airshaft for those which lead to the room where her inebriated guests are querulously listening to the barkings of a rolltop radio. The death of the villainess removes the last element of gaiety from the picture, permits Phillips Holmes, as a mustachioed playboy, and Miriam Hopkins, as a nice girl from the West, to obtain parental consent for matrimony. The involved train of events in Two Kinds of Women?adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's play This is New York?makes for comedy of a sort. One reason it fails to achieve it, is possibly...
...visage of a sabre-toothed baboon with pig eyes and a tassel of primeval hair. The story?most macabre product of the queer brain of Robert Louis Stevenson, sometimes politely sentimental, sometimes insanely, savagely gloomy? goes much as usual, with Hollywood variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love to the daughter (Rose Hobart) of a bigwig. Dr. Jekyll promises the music hall girl immunity from Mr. Hyde, then finds he can no longer regulate his horrid transformations. As Mr. Hyde, he goes to the trollop...
Director Rouben Mamoulian added to the story a few Freudian touches. He made Hyde an incarnation of primitive sadism rather than a London bogeyman who was bad without good reason. Fredric March, ably assisted by Miriam Hopkins and Rose Hobart, is magnificent as Hyde, and he gives Jekyll a stilted Victorian elegance which, being a little false, makes Hyde's existence seem more credible. Good shot: Jekyll turning into Hyde as he watches a cat stalk a sparrow...