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Dear Ruth (Paramount), a midwar hit on Broadway, was a neat, machine-turned farce which depended almost as heavily on its particular period as day before yesterday's racing form. But, even tardily, as it comes to the screen, it is still reasonably entertaining...
...Best Years of Our Lives (RKO Radio) and Calcutta (Paramount...
...future war, and the victory gained or lost in a matter of days. Under conditions like these the best that can be hoped for is a Pyrrhic victory. Though the purchase of peace at any price would be both cowardly and foolish, the goal of world peace becomes the paramount aim to which effort and time must be directed. In this drive for peace the contribution of the United States is twofold. It must preserve a strong and healthy home economy and do all it can to support and reconstruct the economic and industrial systems of other nations who fared...
Last week, the artists decided that it was not worthwhile to turn themselves into businessmen. They gladly made a deal with Paramount Pictures to sell it Liberty Films, including It's a Wonderful Life and various other scripts for a rumored $4,000,000 in Paramount stock. All agreed also to go to work for Paramount. To Hollywood's independent companies, it was a shock to hear that one of the best had given up. The signatures with which the deal was settled seemed like the handwriting on the wall to the war-born independents...
...Imperfect Lady (Paramount) is the spirited daughter (Teresa Wright) of a late-Victorian shopkeeper (Reginald Owen). Touring with a dancing troupe against papa's wishes, she meets and falls in love with Ray Milland, who tries to appeal to the audience going & coming: he is standing for Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi...