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...Seeing You (Selznick-United Artists) is Hollywood's first attempt to focus on the predicament of a shell-shocked soldier, trying to find his way back to normal life. Good and moving as it sometimes is, it leaves much to be said which, for the sake of the many neuropsychiatric casualties who are already returning from the war, badly needs saying to American civilians. The picture's crucial weakness: it confronts its fumbling, humiliated, pitiful soldier Zack (Joseph Cotten) with a girl (Ginger Rogers) who, instead of being reasonably average, is also a decidedly special case. Zack...
...picture is very far from being a total loss. Joseph Cotten's muted, excruciating performance is the best single guarantee of that; some moments of deep warmth and sympathy from Miss Rogers are also valuable. And the rest of the cast and David O. Selznick, Producer Dore Schary and Director William Dieterle have done a good many unpretentiously remarkable things...
Colby does the preliminary planning on clothes for every picture, making sketches which give the designer the gist of what Selznick is looking for. ( She had five years of art study; Bud Counihan is still convinced her real talent lies in art.) She has well in mind, before she starts, what each star can wear: "Bergman is something so beautiful you must play it down. You cannot overpower Ingrid with clothes." "Make Fontaine smart, feminine and refined." "Keep Shirley looking sweet sixteen with soft hair, pigtails and girlish pinafores...
...with her beauty and renown she does not go back to acting, she declares: "I'm perfectly happy now. I know everybody and I'm recognized in the business world. I don't have to pose for cheesecake and I don't"-unless David O. Selznick, or Hollywood itself, be taken for one-"have to sit on elephants...
...following Colby charges-top Selznick actresses-are shown clockwise from bottom on the cover: Shirley Temple, Jennifer Jones, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy McGuire...