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Monty is an old tosspot actor with a crippled daughter (Ida Lupino) whom he dropped on the floor as an infant and who has been vainly trying to get him sober ever since. Daughter finally accepts a suitor and simultaneously persuades her father to attempt a comeback in King Lear. From there on the plot falls to pieces...
Carol Wheeler, an excellent young actress, gives the best performance in the show, looking so lovely that, by Hollywood standards, she wouldn't have to act at all. John Rand '43 plays her amusingly inarticulate suitor. When these two are on the stage, the play is what Behrman intended it to be. Adele Thane does well in a thankless part, and the setting is unusually effective...
Starlet Barrymore plays the daughter of Star Kay Francis. The plot requires Diana to don a middy blouse and pretend she is twelve in order to keep from her mother's suitor (John Boles) the fact that Mother Francis is fortyish. In the complicated course of this deception, Diana also fools a charming young man (Robert Cummings), who buys her roller skates and ice-cream sodas, tries to teach her to skate before his normal eyesight asserts itself and he realizes she is old enough to be his wife...
...Suitor. In St. Albans, Vt., 80-year-old Nelson Coons got a suspended jail sentence for setting fire to a shed which he thought contained his sweetheart and a 75-year-old rival...
With a cast that donated their services and worked in perfect harmony, Shaw's comedy (of a radiant woman fought over by her stuffy parson of a husband and her mooning poet of a suitor) had an acquired warmth as well as a residual wit. In the title role which she first played in New York in 1924 and again in 1937, Katharine Cornell was this time much more human, much less conscious of her own radiance. Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing. As the angular Prossy, Mildred Natwick...