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When Hollywood mixes sweet and inexperienced Olivia deHavilland with Charles Boyer, as a cynical Rumanian gigolo whose past is as dark as his Latin complexion, a strange alchemy results which, with Mexican clime thrown in as catalyst, generates plenty of heat during most of the show, but often just fizzles...
Strawberry Blonde (James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth; TIME, March...
Strawberry Blonde (James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth; TIME, March...
...days before the first World War, when men inhaled birch beer like coke and the biggest blood-suckers were only leeches. James Cagney in his usual punching self demonstrated that the world is his with two fists and a correspondence course in dentistry. He picked up an alluring nurse--Olivia de Haviland, in a swell park scene, but doesn't like her. Instead the cockney Irishman chases exciting Rita Hayworth, the strawberry blonde, and isn't fast enough to land her. But you knew he would marry Olivia and become a dentist. Black-mailed and jugged by a former friend...
...Broadway hit One Sunday Afternoon* directed by Raoul Walsh, Strawberry Blonde is a blithe, sentimental, turn-of-the-century buggy ride. Cagney makes the hero a tough but obviously peachy fellow. But the strawberry humdinger, Rita Hayworth, takes the picture away from him, and dark-eyed Olivia de Havilland, with her electric winks, each followed by a galvanizing "Exactly!" takes it away from both of them. The Warners' lot reports that the de Havilland winks shattered Cagney's control a dozen times during production...