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Cinemactor Rex Harrison plays Henry nimbly enough, but by trying for the man inside the monarch winds up neither very real nor very royal. Small, blonde English
Sturges takes far too much film footage setting the stage for his gag. Rex Harrison is an aging, temperamental and gabby symphony conductor. He is madly in love with his beautiful young wife (Linda Darnell), but he begins to suspect her, unjustly, of carrying on with his handsome young secretary (Kurt Kreuger). Brooding over his jealousy as he conducts a concert (Rossini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky), he imagines himself solving his domestic triangle in three different ways: 1) by murder, 2) by generosity to the young "lovers," and 3) by suicide...
Unfaithfully Yours often trips over its own snarled plot lines and falls flat. But Rex Harrison gives a sly, buoyant performance in a tough, wordy role. And some of Writer-Director-Producer Sturges' whimsy and brisk dialogue are worth the wait through the dull spots. In a cast heavy with "characters," Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander and Rudy Vallee stand out. Vallee is especially good as a stuffed-shirt multimillionaire...
...Rex Ingram, Negro actor who played "De Lawd" in the movie version of Green Pastures, was picked up in Manhattan for violation of the Mann Act. The charge: importing a 15-year-old white high-school sophomore from Salina, Kans., for a weekend in New York (Rex had made the plane reservation for her, and she had given the family the slip by telling them that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want...
...Dodger bench, Eddie Miksis spread consternation among his superstitious teammates by blurting out the unmentionable: "Hey, they haven't got any hits." Out there on the mound, Rex Barney did not need to be told ("I always know when a guy comes up there what he's done the last time ... I remember the ones that have hit me, and there were none to remember...