Word: sothern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for Divorce. By Cinemarmful Ann Sothern, 33: Actor Roger Pryor, 38; on grounds of "great and grievous cruelty"; in Hollywood...
Macbeth (produced by Maurice Evans in association with John Haggott) may at last pay its way on Broadway. Actors from E. H. Sothern and Robert B. Mantell to Lionel Barrymore and Philip Merivale have wrestled with its intractable horrors, have never made them popular. The blood-soaked tale of its towering, ambition-haunted criminals gets in places too much beyond human size to be fully communicable in the theater. The raging fevers of its hero's mind somehow strike cold upon the hearer's heart. But last week Actor Maurice Evans and Director Margaret Webster...
...Ringside Maisie" is pure maize but this particular bushel of corn is pretty amusing fodder. Ann Sothern, the Brooklyn bonfire, wanders into a boxer's training camp and ends up by marrying his manager. Meanwhile all the old hokum about the lighter with a soul who goes blind, etc., etc., etc. occurs with Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom and other pugilistic debris to provide an interesting background. A bit below the pan of the Maisie series, the show is still one of the best grade...
...Sothern, although she still looks like Maisic, warbles with plenty of enthusiasm and not a little artistry; aided by a cleverly guided camera, she does a top-notch job with "The Last Time I Saw Paris," and in the rest of her numbers manages to do more than her share of scene-stealing. Eleanor Powell, away from the screen for too long, taps and jigs effectively, although she isn't given much to do. These two, aided considerably by some fellows named Kern, Gershwin, and Hammerstein, contribute a hearty portion of sparkling entertainment. The plot--since movies, it seems, must...
...Sothern turns in a heroic performance. Separated from her accustomed role as heroine of M.G.M.'s Maisie series (TIME, Aug. 18), blonde, shapely Trouper Sothern almost saves the show. Her singing of The Last Time I Saw Paris is a model of how to put across that over-bleated dirge. And her version of Lady Be Good should please even a Prime Minister...