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Take A Letter, Darling (Paramount) is dedicated to the proposition that anything can happen in an advertising agency. On this premise, it is not unreasonable that in the firm of Atwater (Robert Benchley) & MacGregor (Rosalind Russell) the senior partner should devote his time to pitching quoits and avoiding issues while his attractive junior does all the work...
Design for Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a libel on the U.S. bench. It exhibits Jurisprudence (tall, dark and handsome Rosalind Russell, a female judge) knuckling under to Cupid (tall, dark and handsome Walter Pidgeon, a reporter). This farcical victory is won by Newsman Pidgeon over Judge Russell after she has awarded his employer's (Edward Arnold) wife so much alimony that he has to earn $18,000 more a month to pay it and has to send Pidgeon to frame the judge, into the bargain. Characteristically, the judge won't admit that she loves the reporter except...
...Design for Scandal" is a tribute to Rosalind Russell's versatility as a comedienne. This time she plays the frigid woman-judge whose only weakness is a chronic allergy to roses, "a human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...
...Washington's concrete Uline Arena some 4,000 screaming rug-cutters watched Eleanor Roosevelt slice a 6-ft. birthday cake, distribute chunks to Rosalind Russell, Gene Autry, more than a dozen other cinema stars. Newlywed Actor Mickey Rooney crammed down five slices, mugging for cameramen, before Mrs. Roosevelt gave up. At one of Washington's smaller private parties in the Willard Hotel ballroom, Production Boss Donald Nelson tried to take the private elevator, was told by the operator: "Sorry, sir, but this is only for movie stars and big shots...
...Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert Emmet Sherwood, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell. Among the runners-up for places on the list were: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (3 votes), Gertrude Lawrence (6), Lily Pons...