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...completely conceived was the stage play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...
Stalwart as her massive mahogany fourposter, a hateful woman whose keen mind and force of character command respect, Regina lures her unloved and invalided husband (Herbert Marshall) home to persuade him to invest his funds in her ratty brothers' scheme: to take advantage of the South's cheap and defenseless labor by establishing a cotton factory in partnership with a Northern capitalist. When he balks, she torments him to death, then emerges triumphant over the rest of the greedy pack...
...Burditt Lue Lahiff, Western Springs, III.Arthur V. Campbell Dorothy Lewis, New York, N. Y.Hobart A. Capen Mary Morgan, Miss Rickard'sSamuel B. Carr Mary McCagg, BeaverElliott Carroll Betty Stevenson, GarlandLeon A. Danco, Jr. Ann LeFevre, Dean AcademyAlbert N. Danoff Sybol Fineberg, LasellE. Thayer Drake, III Mary Machezie, SmithJoseph Dunn Regina MacPherson, Westfield CollegeParker Foss Joan Pratt, Concord AcademyGeorge Frankforter Mary Richter, RadcliffeJohn W. Frenning Elaine Letts, BelmontThomas Green Lucy Sampson, BelmontPeter P. Grey Janet Thompson, RadcliffeEdward L. Hadley Yagerne Gaetz, RadcliffeVernon Head Joan Sullivan, New BedfordJay Hurley Mary Reed, Katherine GibbsJoseph Kameese Virginia Foley, NewtonJohn Keeler Betty Gibson, Montclair...
Cheers For Miss Bishop (United Artists) is Victoria Regina laid in a small Midwestern university, with a farm-bred schoolteacher replacing Queen Victoria, farm-bred Actress Martha Scott replacing Helen Hayes. Carefully chosen to build up Actress Scott, whose only previous pictures were Our Town (in which she played the same part she created on the stage) and last year's memorable The Howards of Virginia, Cheers For Miss Bishop sticks doggedly to its job, provides some heartwarming scenes without getting anywhere in particular...
...Sculpture by Anna Sten (Nana) and Vincent Price (Victoria Regina...