Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgan (Jeanette MacDonald, back on the screen after six years' absence) is a divorcee who sings and falls in love with Jose Iturbi (played, with superb assurance, by Jose Iturbi). Jeanette's three little girls (Jane Powell, Ann E. Todd, Mary Eleanor Donohue), who still idealize their father, oppose the marriage. Everybody is fairly stupid about trying to resolve the trouble, but everybody means awfully well. Also, everybody bursts into song or sits down at the piano with little or no provocation...
YOUR COVER STORY [TIME, FEB. 9] ON EDWIN HUBBLE AND THE PALOMAR TELESCOPE IS SUPERB. IT GIVES AN EXCELLENT INTERPRETATION OF THE MAIN LINE OF THOUGHT OF PRESENT COSMOLOGY AND ITS OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE. CONGRATULATIONS ON A FINE PIECE OF SCIENCE WRITING...
...first movie I ever saw without knowing something of its direction, cast or story. So it was a double thrill to watch the unfolding of this superb picture...
...realignment of audience sympathies is the main moving force of the film. Opening impressions of the hero leave you with a generally uneasy feeling about him, while you might think that the crook and his girl are well along on the way to honesty. Consistently high-level supporting actors, superb camera work, and a good script are instrumental in the slow change. Where the film shows its honesty is in the final acceptance by the girl of the necessary double-crossing of her middle-aged admirer to throw police off the trail of her criminal lover...
Despite the score, Devens men were no lilies, maintaining a bone-crushing offense and defense in the second and third frames. Johnny Chase, who filled the College nets after starter Bill Yetman caught a deflected puck in the face, turned in a superb job in holding them to one goal in two periods...