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After her Apollo visit, Ella was heading downtown for her annual three-week session at the Paramount (at $3,250 a week), then out to the West Coast. Still at the top of the heap, Ella has a simple explanation for her success: "People like...
Captain China (Paramount) is a gee-whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...
...Samson and Delilah (Paramount...
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...