Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maurice Chevalier, the Knight of the Twitching Eyebrow, makes a lot of mad love to Jeanette MacDonald (and one or two other femmes fatales) in two thoroughly delightful Paramount re-releases. Miss MacDonald looks as if she's having a hell of a good time while he does, and there's every reason to believe that you will too. In addition to Chevalier's great Gallie charm and expressive, intimate style of singing and acting, these two old flicks still have a good deal more to offer than most recent musical releases in their all-too-rare combination of fine...
Paid in Full (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a smoothly produced, competently played tearjerker about a self-sacrificing woman (Lizabeth Scott) who suffers & suffers. Having accidentally killed the only child that her sister (Diana Lynn) can have, she marries her brother-in-law (Robert Cummings) when his divorce comes through. Then, knowing that she must die in childbirth, she bears him a baby, leaves him to remarry her sister so that they can raise the child as a substitute for their own. The film comes from a story originally published in Reader's Digest. It is the kind of story...
Comedy dancer Marie Tiffany, who has recently worked on the stages of Radio City Music Hall and the Paramount Theatre, will perform along with Chick Carmen, who is appearing at the French Village. A duet of Alice O'Leary and Guy Guarine, both currently at the Darbury Room, will also entertain...
Dear Wife (Paramount). The movie sequel is an old Hollywood custom designed to repeat a success by imitating it. More often, as with this pale wraith of 1947's Dear Ruth, it succeeds only in running a good thing into the ground. With the same principals playing for farce in the same suburban setting, Dear Wife sadly lacks a script to measure up to the original...
...time I crawled out of the Paramount theater, I somehow wished that DeMille wasn't such a Bible fan after all. Spectacles and morals somehow don't mix; it's like holding a revival meeting in the Latin Quarter...