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...dominant tone is one of moderation. David Niven is moderately crotchety as the bishop; Grant is moderately supernatural as Dudley; Loretta Young registers a variety of moderate emotions as the wife; and Monty Wooley is only moderately Monty Wooley as an old professor. And the total effect, despite the unhesitant acceptance of "just Dudley" and his miracles, is moderately good. As the redhead decided, summoning all her critical forces into play, "I liked...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

...Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) wishes she weren't. The bishop (David Niven) spends so much time laboring in the vineyard that there is none left for his own garden. It seems that nothing less than a miracle can salvage his marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Teresa Wright, 27, starry-eyed cinemactress (Best Years of Our Lives"), and Hollywood Writer Niven Busch, 44 (Duel in the Sun): their second child, first daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Kelly. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 22, 1947 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Neither the Republicans' labor bill nor the Communist coup in Hungary got such space in the Examiner as Beulah and Bud. The Los Angeles press invaded suburban Santa Ana in force, with 30-odd reporters, photographers and such trained seals as Mystery Writer Craig Rice (later fired), Screenwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, and Adela Rogers St. Johns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down Adela's Alley | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Other Love (Enterprise; United Artists) bounces a few echoes-but very faint ones-off Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Its heroine (Barbara Stanwyck), a great pianist exhausted by her trade, comes to a Swiss sanitarium for a rest. Her doctor (David Niven) decides not to tell her that she is far gone in tuberculosis. Slowly, she realizes that he is lying to her. Then she begins to doubt that his lavish charm and his protestations of love are better than so much calculated therapeutic blarney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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