Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Roosevelt threw Paulette Goddard and the entire Heidt Brigade into the pot with Jimmy Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...
Miss Goddard doesn't dance like Rogers, but she looks exceedingly pretty, while Stewart adequately mugs his way through a role he has played in a dozen films...
...This week the drive began. The Osaka Maimchi accused the U.S., Britain, China, British India, Australia and The Netherlands East Indies of pooling their military and naval resources to maintain the status quo in the Far East. Australia's Minister for External Affairs Sir Frederick Stewart, the first to deny this, called it "a piece of deliberate propaganda." It was more. It was the start of a Hitlerian campaign against "encirclement." Its object: Singapore...
Katherine Hepburn manages to play what some critics claim is Katherine Hepburn with consummate artistry. James Stewart acts out what is most certainly not James Stewart with considerably less success. And Cary Grant serves as an excellent back-drop for the two. Take the acting of these three, plus excellent support from the minor characters, a highly sophisticated (often too sophisticated) script, and excellent direction throughout, and you have "The Philadelphia Story...
...James Stewart may still be dear to the hearts of the club women of America. Certainly his lovable simplicity, which has been built up in all his former pictures, is no less lovable or simple in this one. But the trouble is that while he is acting bewildered in "The Philadelphia Story" he should be trying to be cynical, and instead of that old Stewart expression of complete blankness he should for once try to conjure up, by some contortion of his face and his imagination, at least a slight hint of intelligence...