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...maddening set of twins, Olivia de Havilland does a neat job of keeping everyone, including the audience, properly baffled. Lew Ayres, who left Hollywood under a wartime cloud in 1942 when he registered as a conscientious objector, makes his first postwar screen appearance. Whether because of the fan and exhibitor furor about his C.O. status, or because of his 22 months Pacific service as a noncombatant Medical Corps sergeant and chaplain's assistant, the Ayres face and screen personality have undergone a startling change. With little remaining resemblance to the confused kid of All Quiet on the Western Front...
...excellent opening scenes, tight-packed with sharply observed detail, are models of celluloid suspense. Police Detective Thomas Mitchell coldly interviews the victim's neighbors until he tracks down Suspect Olivia de Havilland, hard at work behind her cigar counter. To the detective's consternation, Miss de Havilland has an identical twin. One of the girls was too near the scene of the crime. But the police cannot get a murder indictment without knowing for certain which girl has the unbreakable alibi. The twins themselves aren't talking...
...Married. Olivia de Havilland, 30, British-born cinemactress (Anthony Adverse, Captain Blood), sister of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine; and Marcus Goodrich, 48, screen writer, novelist (bestseller Delilah); she for the first time, he for the fifth; in Wilton, Conn...
...Each His Own. Olivia de Havilland suffers & suffers as an unwed mother in an expertly made, artfully played tear-jerker (TIME, June...
...Each His Own. Olivia de Havilland suffers & suffers as an unwed mother in an expertly made, artfully played tear-jerker (TIME, June...