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...Kind of Woman (RKO) is a somewhat lumpy blend of slapstick comedy and dead-serious melodrama. Gambler Robert Mitchum, after being alternately wooed and walloped by gangsters, finds himself in an isolated Mexican resort trying to cope with a plot that defies analysis. While awaiting the arrival of the criminal mastermind (Raymond Burr), Mitchum patches up a newlyweds' quarrel; exchanges terse dialogue and melting looks with bosomy Jane Russell; plays straight man for Vincent Price, a hammy Hollywood star...
...reputation as Hollywood's most irresistible female grew apace. When Robert Mitchum was assigned to a picture with her, he cautiously called the studio's head, who had once gone around with Ava, and asked if it would be all right to start dating her. The boss pondered the matter for a moment and replied that, on the contrary, it was probably a good idea: "If you don't take her out, Robbie, people will just start saying you're a little queer...
...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...
Armed with a convenient $900,000 inheritance, Ava bribes her rakish ne'er-do-well of a cousin (Melvyn Douglas) to break up Mitchum's home by seducing his wife (Janis Carter)-a job Douglas seems perfectly willing to attempt without pay. But, on the point of success, Douglas accidentally kills his quarry. Mitchum, suspected of doing his wife in, can be saved only by Ava's last-minute confession of her foul scheme...
...ladies of the Hollywood Women's Press Club compared notes on their year's work, voted Loretta Young and Alan Ladd the "most cooperative stars," Olivia de Havilland and Robert Mitchum the "least cooperative...