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...Hilton who is a captain away at war. Only his photograph ever appears in the film. Mrs. Hilton the U.S. dream housewife, is Claudette Colbert, acting her age. She is graciously patronizing to tradesmen, affectionate toward her servant (Hattie McDaniel) patient even with her bitchy cocktail-acquaintance (Agnes Moorehead) and a good mother to her two daughters...
...about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip and Daumier. Paul Stewart, rescued from expert portrayals of smooth crooks, makes a small part as a newshawk the best thing in Government Girl...
...four pages are usually crowded with war news from crack correspondents like Alan Moorehead in Algiers, C. V. R. Thompson in New York. But the Express is at its best on stories about murders, sex, abandoned babies and the more maudlin doings of Soho underworldlings. The U.S. staff (three reporters in New York, a man each in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles) files about 3,000 words daily, is never surprised to get a cable like: "RUSH...
Morale. "Something strange is happening to German morale," Correspondent Alan Moorehead cabled from North Africa to the London Daily Express. "I refrained for a fortnight from writing this story because it is dangerous to suggest that Nazi morale is breaking unless there is overwhelming evidence. . . . It is a poor type of man we are capturing. Many have been wounded in Russia and then rushed haphazardly over to Tunisia to be formed into new units on the spot and sent straight into battle...
...Wake Island. The Russian-made documentary, Moscow Strikes Back, won a special award as best "war fact" film. For top honors among actresses, the 18 voting critics passed over an armful of notables, chose a young woman whose name means nothing at all to most cinegoers: Agnes Moorehead. She played the pyrotechnic part of paranoiac Aunt Fanny in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons-her first role of any size. A versatile veteran of radio's washboard weepers, playlets and the MARCH OF TIME, she was once a teacher of English literature, holds four college degrees...