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Union Pacific (Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea; TIME...
Union Pacific (Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea; TIME...
Leaving the set where he was at work with luscious Hedy Lamarr, he journeyed to San Diego with the woman he loves. Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens in Brooklyn 31 years ago, divorced three years ago from waggish Frank Fay, is a man's woman who is best in roles like the saucy Irish engineer's daughter she plays in Union Pacific. Filed three days in advance, as California law requires, the names of S. Arlington Brugh and Ruby Stevens attracted no notice. The nervous bridegroom about to break millions of feminine hearts kept a nervous justice...
...bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday. Fearing that its press-agentry would be submerged in the civic celebrations, Paramount loaded Barbara Stanwyck and some of Union Pacific's cast (but not Joel McCrea, under contract to jealous and immovable Producer Samuel Goldwyn) on a train which triumphantly journeyed from Los Angeles, was mobbed even at unscheduled stops along its 1,800-mile route by exuberant crowds, many of whom sported whiskers...
...machinations of big financiers behind the scenes in Washington--is vividly portrayed. Technical superiority, shown particularly in the handling of minor characters, has produced an authentic background; Akim Tamiroff, as a virile plug-ugly, is outstanding. To be sure, as much cannot be said for Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, who are pleasant but unnecessary; nevertheless, by virtue of the skill with which a worthwhile tlicme has been handled, a convincing and certainly entertaining motion picture has been produced...