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...bedroom had a refrigerator and bar and an oyster-white rug, often littered with phonograph records or clothes. She liked to be interviewed in bed in the late afternoon and sometimes leaped from the covers in a transparent nightgown to admire herself in the mirror. Sometimes, at parties, she raised her dress neck high, to show that she had a compact little body and a magnificent overall...
...flights in the empyrean of genuine domestic poetry. These triumphs are creditable mainly to the intensity and grace of Margaret O'Brien and to the ability of Director Minelli & Co. to get the best out of her. Her song (Drunk Last Night) and her cakewalk, done in a nightgown at a grown-up party, are entrancing little acts. Her self-terrified Halloween adventures, richly set against firelight, dark streets and the rusty confabulations of fallen leaves, bring this section of the film very near the first-rate. To the degree that this exciting little episode fails, it is because...
...best-seller laid in 17th-Century England (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), it offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed Manhattan's Rivoli Theater on the opening day, the picture may well hurdle a lukewarm press to become the woman...
...these blondes (Bonita Granville) presumably arouses the dormant man in young Hardy. The other two, gold-digging twins (the Wilde sisters), arouse the adolescent beast in him. In cutbacks Mother Hardy (Fay Holden) is seen wandering around in her nightgown and Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) gets tonsillitis. Andy finally untangles himself and is last shown imploring Cinemactress Granville to nurse her cold. Meaning: he has grown...
...Next morning he slept luxuriously late. When he awoke he learned that the sweaters he had brought for the kids were too small; the real crepe de Chine nightgown for his wife too large...