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...Three Godfathers (Argosy; M-G-M), made by independent producers, is the work of such talented people as Director John Ford (The Informer, The Long Voyage Home), Producer Merian C. Cooper (The Long Voyage Home, Fort Apache) and Scripters Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory) and Frank S. Nugent (Fort Apache). The finished product gives the viewer the kind of shock he might get from seeing all the Flying Wallendas fall off the high wire at once. Godfathers is close to being an unintentional parody on the old-fashioned western...
Despite the fact that additional people and places are now visible, "The Voice of the Turtle" is still essentially a three-character show. Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan, while not able to reach the level established in New York by Margaret Sullivan and Elliot Nugent, are quite capable. Eve Arden, playing the glossy, irresponsible Olive, is up to any standard...
Theodore Allegretti '47 as "Captain" Jack Boyle; Helen McCloskey as Juno Boyle; Robert C. Seaver '50 as Johnny Boyle; Barbara Nathan, Radcliffe '48, as Mary Boyle; Walter Frank '49, as "Joxer" Daly; Mary Flannery as Mrs. Mary Madigan; Christopher Martin '49 as "Needles" Nugent...
...Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Elliott Nugent & Robert Montgomery) has a well-intentioned topical slant, but is really old folderol under new flags. It is one more tale of a man and girl divided by everything but their love for each other; only here, instead of being Guelph & Ghibelline, or Roundhead & Cavalier, they are a Soviet officer and an American newspaper correspondent (Philip Dorn & Claire Trevor). They meet in Russian-occupied Austria-the girl is there on her own, looking for an American who did treasonable broadcasts for the Nazis; the Russian is on furlough. While fighting over...
...Like a Housewife." Small, hard-eyed Allyne Velome Scheerer Carpenter Nugent, the boss, is a lithe and fiftyish fireball who has the respect, if not the love, of her staff. She inherited the Courier in 1925, five years later had worked herself into a breakdown. She went to Paris to get over it, met and married a young English-Canadian named John Lithgow Nugent-Fyfe. In Lincoln her new husband dropped the Lithgow and Fyfe, suspecting that midwesterners would not cotton to hyphenations. He ran the business...