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...helped make their men great. Unfortunately, the great man (Joel McCrea) chosen for this bow to womankind wasn't worth the effort. His name is Hoyt, a romantic frontiersman of 1848 who dreams of building a great Midwestern city. His idealism persuades a Philadelphia Main Line girl (Barbara Stanwyck) to go West with him. Some 60 years later he is a dying U.S. Senator, silver rich. He had apparently got his city built (on land he owned). She is the wife he abandoned after she nursed him to greatness...
This lengthy, maudlin attempt to tell a tale of frontier womanhood is tough on Pioneer Stanwyck. Most of the time she is a reminiscing crone of 109, whose makeup is much better than her performance. Elsewhere she is a prairie wife, a Sacramento boardinghouse keeper, a croupier in San Francisco's Crystal Palace, etc. Her most remarkable achievement is to win back her husband's money, livestock and other chattels from a gambler (Brain Donlevy), who is so stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired...
Actor Cooper plays his Mr. Deeds role with the authority of long familiarity, and Miss Stanwyck (once Ruby Stevens, of Brooklyn) is equally at home in hers...
...encyclopedia, slang comes under the letter S, and it is there that Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) and his seven unwed colleagues get stuck. Potts takes pencil and notebook and sets out to get unstumped. He is lucky; he meets Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck...
...flaw, though, is the painfully self-conscious use of racy slang. Some of the players, notably Miss Stanwyck, mouth it so unfeelingly that at times it falls completely flat...