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Maggie McNamara as a fetching and demure ingenue is picked up by man-of-the-world William Holden, who lures her into his apartment. Socialite David Niven enters to aid in the seduction. And though no more dissolute and jaded a rake could be found east of Fifth Avenue, Miss McNamara remains secure in her faith that feminine right will conquer masculine might. By the end of the film, the rake is reclaimed and virtue triumphant...
...heroine, Maggie McNamara has a pert, wide-eyed, fresh-scrubbed charm. David Niven is appropriately debonair as the playboy. In the role of the architect, William Holden does one of his easy, authoritative acting jobs, that is all the more effective for not seeming like acting at all. The trio of leading characters appear as likable, essentially well-behaved people, in a picture that is always sophisticated, literate and in good taste...
Four-Star Playhouse (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). David Niven in Mr. Bingham...
Four Star Playhouse (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). David Niven in Night Ride...
...cameraman with a sigh: "You must be firm with Germans. They are raised differently from us and react better if one is absolutely rigorous. Only patience will get us what we want." When the German cast moved off the set, Preminger called for his English-speaking actors-David Niven, William Holden, Maggie McNamara and Dawn Addams-and shot the same scene with less difficulty-and less patience-in English...