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Design for Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a libel on the U.S. bench. It exhibits Jurisprudence (tall, dark and handsome Rosalind Russell, a female judge) knuckling under to Cupid (tall, dark and handsome Walter Pidgeon, a reporter). This farcical victory is won by Newsman Pidgeon over Judge Russell after she has awarded his employer's (Edward Arnold) wife so much alimony that he has to earn $18,000 more a month to pay it and has to send Pidgeon to frame the judge, into the bargain. Characteristically, the judge won't admit that she loves the reporter except...
...comedienne. This time she plays the frigid woman-judge whose only weakness is a chronic allergy to roses, "a human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...
Edward Arnold, as a scatterbrained business-executive, does his usual polished job; and Jean Rogers, the other woman in Pidgeon's life, has more oomph for our money than most of the higher paid oomph-girls. For the denouncement, tobacco-chewing Guy Kibbee renders a juicy bit-part as presiding judge of a nonsensical court-scene, in which Pidgeon gets Miss Russell on the stand and proposes to her in the ritual of jurisprudence...
...youngest Morgan son, Hugh, stands off and watches the action go by, and it is through his eyes that the picture is shown. Walter Pidgeon comes to the town as the local pastor, and acts as the moderator and go-between in the social problems which face the ever-poor miners. His counsel helps to avert violence during a long, hard winter when the miners are on strike. Maureen O'Hara, the eligible daughter, falls in love with Pidgeon, but he, fearing he can never offer her a big enough income, shuts himself in his church while the Oxford-trained...
...Green Was My Valley (Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Pidgeon; TIME...