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...attempts to assume the spontaneity and vitality proper to a prima donna never give the story what it needs. It is all about a rich young girl who was supposed to marry a count she did not love and who finally eloped with Charles Farrell in a white Ford. Silliest line (by Farrell, after a tedious love-scene spent entirely in singing the theme-song, "Just Like in a Story Book"): "Let's not ever forget this beautiful memory...
...playing brings the brittle characters to life, gets the most out of the glib, skillful, and rather shallow little story about a newsman who quarrelled with his wife because she made him feel inferior and made up with her when he found he could stand on his own legs. Silliest shot: Claudette Colbert going blind after drinking some liquor intended for sportswriter consumption. Claudette Colbert (nee Chauchoin) was born in Paris in 1905. Her French parents, after financial reverses, migrated to Manhattan when she was seven years old. She was studying painting when a friend gave her three lines...
...real and potentially effective suggestion of the picture-the relations between an egotistic young musician and the waif he has married for commercial reasons-is spoiled by Joseph Schildkraut's familiar affectations, his habit of speaking lines of conversation as though he were reciting a Macaulay essay. Silliest shot: the champagne party in the local cabaret...
...ways of the plains while appearing on the Palace circuit. A sheep in wolf's clothing, he sometimes retaliates for his discomfort by glossing his role with furtive mockery, quickly suppressed. Some of the photography is pretty and the theme song, "Under a Texas Moon," better than the average. Silliest shot: Fay eloping with Myrna Loy, when he might have had Armida or Raquel Torres...
...detail. The carpenters, for instance, have the enunciation of experienced Shakespearean actors. The marching mob, supposed to be recruited from the slums, all have the same kind of torches, as though their supplies for the attack on the palace had been issued by a circus property-room. Silliest shot: John Boles getting Laura La Plante out of the dungeon...