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...City Music Hall's Eastor show is accompanied by a Fred Astaire revue entitle Royal Wedding, with Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn. The Roxy, 50th and Seventh, proclaims Bird of Paradise its greatest Easter show; the South Sea island idyll involves Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, and Jeff Chandler. The Paramount offers Bob Hope in Damon Runyon's The Lemon Drop Kid, with Billy Eckstine on stage. Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward supply standard Western drama in Rawhide at the Rivoll, another Times Square house...
Marks are not of paramount importance, Faulkner asserted...
...Mating Season (Paramount) only proves what many a cinemagoer has long suspected: Thelma Ritter can be just as delightful in a big role as in the small ones she played in A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. She is funny, enormously likable and the only genuine article in this highly synthetic comedy. Without her, the picture would founder, and it is hard to think of any other actress now working in movies who could bring off this particular salvage job nearly as well...
...first movie from Producer Charles (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend) Brackett since Paramount split his partnership with Billy Wilder, The Mating Season is a disappointment. Among its contrivances, it tries to palm off Lund as a sympathetic character, an effort that fails despite the script's broad, last-minute gestures. Star Ritter gets most of her help from Actress Hopkins' expert playing of a bitchy lady of quality. There is also a surprisingly animated performance by Gene Tierney...
...Great Missouri Raid (Paramount) is a pseudohistorical western that whitewashes the Jesse James gang in bright Technicolor. An earlier version of the desperado's career, 1939's moneymaking Jesse James, depicted the James boys as victims of a land-grabbing railroad which forced them into a life of crime. In the new vogue for brewing westerns out of the backwash of the Civil War, they become Southern martyrs hounded by a vindictive Yankee major...