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...Carrolls (Warner) is a melodrama about a daft painter who subtly murders one wife after another. It was a Broadway hit chiefly because it provided a superb five-finger exercise for one of the trickiest actresses in the trade-Elisabeth Bergner. With the less versatile Barbara Stanwyck in the Bergner role, the story is merely thin and shabby...
...Other Love (Enterprise; United Artists) bounces a few echoes-but very faint ones-off Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Its heroine (Barbara Stanwyck), a great pianist exhausted by her trade, comes to a Swiss sanitarium for a rest. Her doctor (David Niven) decides not to tell her that she is far gone in tuberculosis. Slowly, she realizes that he is lying to her. Then she begins to doubt that his lavish charm and his protestations of love are better than so much calculated therapeutic blarney...
...Barbara Stanwyck found the world almost too much with her. At a London premiere she got separated from handsome husband Robert Taylor by a mob of worshipful women. Police had to rescue the pair, ride horses through the crowd to make way. Miss Stanwyck fainted. Taylor got a black eye. "It was the first time since our marriage," said Miss Stanwyck, "that Robert and I have been parted." Miss Stanwyck was doubling as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, which sometimes ran her observations on Page One. Sample: "The British love to tell you how awful things...
...only refreshing notes are the excellence of Barbara stanwyck, perfectly cast as a questionable woman, the wonderful Irish brogue of Barry Fitzgerald, and the ceric perfection of a knife fight. By warping the conventional meat and potatoes script. Paramount has succeeded only in weakening Ray Milland's excellent reputation and in alienating what Western lovers it still has left...
California (Paramount) is a big, energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...