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Comic Eddie Cantor, 65 last January, was set to join the small roster of well-heeled showfolk collecting Social Security old-age benefits (some others: Francis X. Bushman, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason). Whenever Millionaire Cantor and wife Ida get their monthly $161.70 (for any month in which Eddie earns less than $80), they will forward it to a New York boys' camp where Cantor gamboled 53 summers...
...look at Actress Crawford's remarkable legs. Even this is an obvious mistake, for by reducing a performer of Joan's experience and hard-won skills to the cheesecake class, the picture stints her of the human qualities she has developed. Best scene: one in which Marjorie Rambeau, as Joan's mother, a merry old frump, hands around some free advice to her lovelorn daughter, and then amalgamates a ten-oz. glass of beer in one unforgettable chugalug...
...drinking Lawyer Malone (Brian Donlevy) wriggles into trouble and out again with monotonous regularity. For a while, he divides his time between a nightclub crooner (Dorothy Lamour) and a rich, fusty old client (Marjorie Rambeau). Then the crooner is convicted of murdering her boss. When she is supposedly executed (but actually spared by the governor), Donlevy gets a chance to put all his troubles under one roof: he moves beautiful Miss Lamour into the house with the old lady...
...amount of restraint for a mystery-comedy, The Lucky Stiff confines itself to only four murders. It could stand a few more laughs. Even its romance dwindles off when Lawyer Donlevy decides to ration the women in his life. He gives up Lamour, but holds on to both Client Rambeau (whose fees pay a lot of bills), and his long-suffering secretary (Claire Trevor) who tells him which bills must be paid...
Being familiar with what had to be done, mechanically and physically, to accomplish this, I salaam in amazement to your organization. It represents a feat I would have considered absolutely impossible. TIME is wonderful. L. D. RAMBEAU White Marsh...