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When war broke out year ago, the duty of the able-bodied members of Hollywood's British colony received plenty of attention. Some thought they should hurry home to enlist, as did handsome, mustachioed David Niven. Loudest blast of the debate came from London last week, where British Producer Michael Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton...
...Samuel Goldwyn announced that for his next picture he planned to borrow David Niven from the British Army...
...Thief is still Raffles (David Niven*), cricketer and second-story man, whose faulty sense of property rights is corrected by a great love (Olivia de Havilland). In the first Goldwyn version, Ronald Colman played Raffles with ardor. David Niven plays the part with crookish cunning. But Niven's cunning is no match for Scotland Yard in the person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady...
This one is about David Niven as a magician whose hand is ever so much quicker than Broderick Crawford's eye. Result: he gets the gal, Loretta Young in this case. The old chestnut about the society girl running off with an entertainer is once again with us, but aside from a few emotional lapses, the picture is good...
Hugh Herbert is Niven's valet and does his best to end the thought that no man is a hero to his valet. Billie Burke, C. Aubrey Smith, and Raymond Walburn are acceptable in the supporting roles...