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...worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
Along with his new identity and the promise of riches, he picks up a doting mother (Selena Royle), an affectionate sister (Mona Freeman) and a sudden rash of scruples. When he learns that the rancher's real, kidnaped son has been adopted by a Mexican bandit chief (Joseph Calleia), Ladd stages a one-man invasion of Mexico to bring the missing heir home. He is undeterred by a whole bandit army, the rough terrain and the fact that the long-lost son is perfectly content to stay where...
...MacBean (Selena Royle) is glad to have Van around, and young Lissy (Janet Leigh) makes eyes enough for a whole county's quota of farmers' daughters. Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) is less easily won over by the stranger. The Civil War has just been fought, and feeling still runs high. Barns are being burned by masked riders; Yankees and ex-Rebels still won't help each other out with the crops, or even keep their tempers at a party. Old Man MacBean, a 100% Rebel, has a burning question: Are the stranger's britches blue...
...studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved the ultimate indignity of being laughed at by first-nighters in passages intended to be solemn...
...with Avenue A when 15,000 debutantes, ward heelers, American Legionaries, professional party-trotters, bearded Henry Latham Doherty, head of the national Ball Committee, and Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt mingled in the five ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria. A "Pageant of America," staged by Ned Wayburn, began with Actress Selena Royle as the Atlantic Ocean, attended by Miss Lorraine Fielding as "Seaweed." They were followed by Dancer Ruth St. Denis as "Cotton," Actress Peggy ("I Love Brooklyn") Wood as "Grapes," and Mary Virginia Sinclair, daughter of Harry Ford Sinclair...