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Forever Amber (20th Century-Fox) is every bit as good a movie as it was a novel. But it may not be as sensationally popular as Kathleen Winsor's account of a Slut's Progress...
...time Austrian-accented Paul Henreid is the overly sensitive, love-tortured medical student. (Henreid's blatantly un-British enunciation is lightly dismissed by a reference in the script to his "Viennese mother.") Eleanor Parker, a pretty, plumpish, 24-year-old ingenue, is physically miscast as the scrawny little slut of a waitress. But under Director Edmund Goulding's shrewd guidance, she does a fine, shoulder-wriggling job in the repellent role that gave Bette Davis a start as the screen's No. 1 hussy...
...miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young man in trouble, mixes talent and overemphasis in about equal parts. Hit of the show: Rosalind Ivan, having herself a high old time as the cockney tart's earthy, evangelistic mother...
...Truth," says the author, "is the pedestaled goddess of the Anglo-Saxon world, yet the treatment she receives often makes her look like a slut." He agrees that the charge of hypocrisy commonly leveled against the Englishman is true. Perpetually riven "by the struggle between necessity and conscience," Englishmen can hardly be expected to be otherwise. But the main point, says Baldwin, is that the English conscience is always consulted...
...process of being destroyed, he could take only one wife, and Clory was sure she would be his choice. Willie was dead; 'Sheba was past childbearing. But Clorinda herself, broken by miscarriages, was no prospect as a mother, and Abijah took a new wife, a pitiless slut who had youth if nothing else. Clorinda realized then what 'Sheba had suffered from her. She bore her last child, dead, and slowly died herself...