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Silk Stockings (musical adaptation of Ninotchka by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, Cole Porter), with Don Ameche and Hildegarde Neff...
...plot. She is a young Englishwoman (Claire Bloom) who goes to Berlin, 1953, for a visit with her brother (Geoffrey Toone), an officer in the British occupation force. Almost at once she senses dark, hurrying shapes in the outwardly placid life of her sister-in-law (Hildegarde Neff), and soon curiosity tempts her to take a plunge into the shadowy mystery...
...turns in one of his most careful performances, and makes the part of a romantic baddie into a pretty convincing picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming and gifted ingenue, moves through her scenes winningly. Hildegarde Neff is heavy, magnetic and subtle as the troubled sister-in-law. She has a Dietrich-like voice and a Garbo-like capacity to make silence intensely interesting...
...closing minutes of the half, Berkeley quarterback Tom Neff passed to Ron Bush who had sneaked behind Eliot safety man Fred Rhinelander. Bush sped 65 yards to the 15 before Rhinelander caught...
...tell you a little about his writer: 20th Century Fox uses them only to sneak in one colossal scene after another. Thick and fast they come: Gregory Peck by the Seine, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner at the bullfights and in the Spanish civil war, Gregory Peck and Hildegarde Neff splashing about the Riviera, Gregory Peck, friendly natives, and several hippopotami in an African river. All this is interpolated into a clinical, wince-by-wince history of the progress of Peck's gangrene. By the time things really look black for Peck, one has only the impression that...