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...Goldwyn's hired hands have worked hard to give us a new slant on the old hick-meets-city-girl situation. This version has Gary Cooper as a musty grammarian who goes to the masses in search of live vernacular. Inevitably, he meets Barbara Stanwyck, who is a night-club warbler with Gene Krupa's orchestra. She talks a Hollywoodish brand of slang that will leave even the boys from Lindy's open-mouthed...
...direction is a masterpiece of selecting and omitting. Cooper's inevitable denunciation scene wherein the simple but honest hero tells off those who have manipulated him for Evil Ends is held down to only a few lines. Miss Stanwyck is restrained from whining and blubbering interminably, as is her wont when directors give her freere...
...bright lexicon of U.S. slang, Brooklyn-reared Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck added her two cents' worth. When her director and a pair of writers, working on Ball of Fire, were stymied for a line, she volunteered: "I'll just walk up . . . and say, 'What's buzzin', Cousin?' That's the way we do it in Brooklyn...
Gary Cooper is excellent as the guileless tramp, though by now the role of a good-natured, honest, lovable fellow from the sticks must be getting a little tiring for him. Barbara Stanwyck imitates the movie conception of a woman reporter to perfection, even though in the end she has to let her hair down and become merely A Woman. Edward Arnold also acts out a part which he has played for years--the cigar-smoking, smooth-talking menace who threatens to upset the true-love apple-cart with his foul designs, but in the end is either converted...
Meet John Doe (Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold; TIME, March...