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Leo Genn does an admirable job as the soft-speaking doctor who takes a personal interest in this case and gradually uncovers the source of the ailment; Mark Stevens is adequate as the girl's husband. Celeste Holm appears briefly as a completely mad girl who tries to choke all...
On the West Coast, where by old stand ards college football has recently ranged from pitiful to deplorable, California demanded the right to be rated among the nation's best. In rainy Seattle, the Rose Bowl-bound Golden Bears made it five straight this season by rubbing Washington'...
"The task of Christian art," wrote Leo Tolstoy, "is to establish brotherly union among men." Kathe Kollwitz' prints and drawings pass even Tolstoy's severe test. For more than 40 years, her art helped finance the clinic maintained by her doctor husband in a Berlin slum, and she...
Miss Fontaine, in her performance of a girl whose shyness is pitiful to watch, is the best part of this movie. She spends a great deal of time listening entranced to Jourdan's piano playing and hiding behind curtains and doors, but manages to smile wistfully, even while sinning.
Mabel, probably the most difficult role that Sullivan ever wrote, was sung imperfectly by Helen Roberts, but it would be difficult to imagine anyone acting a winsome part more winsomely. In the somewhat lesser role of Edith, Denise Findley gave by far the best female performance. The sets were as...