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...making a comeback as George Hamilton's wife in a new motorcycle epic. She has remarried-this time to a struggling Los Angeles photographer named Roland Harrison, 33. Harrison hopes to become a successful freelancer, and his 25-year-old wife hopes to rise above her reputation as screendom's synonym for overheated pubescence...
...contrived a marvelously quasi-erotic rock 'n' roll dance in slow motion, and an amusing street scene combining car-dodging and song. Director of photography John Wilcox has handled the camera well at all times, and used his medium creatively. Those scenes with the histrionic darling of American screendom, Dixie Collins, have been overexposed, giving a flatness, lack of contrast, and washed-out appearance that are an amusing contrast to the breasty, brash, bleached blonde played by Yolande Donlan...
Greatest Show On Earth almost supersedes itself in the spectacular. Cecil B.'s technicolor triumph, at the Metropolitan, is about as big a menagerie as you'll ever find in screendom...
...Alliance's quickie production stole no scenes from the Free Worlders. More than 300 of screendom's best-dressed thinkers, from Jack Benny's Rochester to Thomas Mann, turned up to hear Henry Wallace. Marquee names on the committee included Jimmy Cagney, veteran Hollywood labor leader, Rosalind Russell and Charles Boyer. Heading them all was Dudley Nichols, who wrote the screen version of The Bell, and put in it what little antiFascism finally peeped through the Technicolor...
Depicting the life of a great research scientist who has to fight against the formidable opposition of conservatism, "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" is one of screendom's finer productions. Sensitive spectators may be titillated by the screen debut of syhphilis, but the outstanding fact about this powerful picture is the truly magnificent acting of Edward G. Robinson. As Dr. Paul Ehrlich, he forsakes the tough-guy aspect for which he is famed and turns out a performance that must be considered for academy honors at the end of the year...