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...Notorious Gentleman, starring Rex Harrison, was released in England as The Rake's Progress; U.S. distributors changed the title so that American moviegoers would not mistake it for a documentary on gardening. The picture's chief moral lapse: it makes adultery look like too much fun. At the end of all his wenching, the Rake dies as he has lived-happy and unrepentant. Death is just what he deserves, but the Johnston Office wants him to show some remorse...
Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl isn't the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...
...what can happen when a prim but courageous English-woman goes to take up the white man's burden and remains to guide the destiny of a struggling monarch and his nation. All this is decidedly novel for a high-budget film, but Director Louis Lighton and his star, Rex Harrison, manage to carry it off with ease and maturity...
Irene Dunne is properly starchy as Anna, while Lee J. Cobb and Gale Sondergaard maintain a tone of reality as believable members of the royal household. But Rex the rex injects enough jaunty wit in 100 minutes to make up for years of freekle-faced 2nd lieutenants and monosyllabic bathing beauties. From a first knowing look down to an inspired performance vending napkins to emissaries of the western nations at the Bangkok version of a formal dinner, the picture is his. Thus it is that "Anna and The King of Siam" take their place as one of those rare pairs...
Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl isn't the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...