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Married. Clark Gable, 54, durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...
...Richard Egan) of the mineowner is an aging squirt who romances the bottle instead of his wife, and makes rye grimaces at the facts of life. The lady herself (Margaret Hayes) is a country-club tramp who indulges in "two or three hobbies a year." The town librarian (Sylvia Sidney) is caught with a stolen purse by the manager of the bank (Tommy Noonan), whose civic indignation is somewhat dampened by the fact that she has caught him, too, in his secret sin (he peeps...
...this happens casually, pleasantly, without a crack in the customary Marquand mood. Willis Wayde's minor monstrosities, which outweigh his major villainies, sneak up on the unsuspecting reader, as they sneak up on Willis' unsuspecting wife-a professor's charming daughter named Sylvia. Willis turns out to be the kind of man who pops out of bed of a morning and drops to the floor to do 20 pushups, religiously devotes 15 minutes a day to the Five-Foot Shelf of Harvard Classics, and methodically sprinkles wheat germ in his orange juice. On their honeymoon...
...funny, that his cliche-laden speeches are profound. He has the most dreadfully patronizing mannerisms that ever drove a wife (or a reader) to fury, and even when he tries to be tender, he just manages an Emily Postscript. "I wish you'd kiss me, dear," says Sylvia. "Why, certainly," replies Willis. "It will be a pleasure, honey." Yet just as Sylvia puts up with him, so in the end does the reader. For Author Marquand manages a highly skillful double-switch with the reader's emotions. Early in the book, he smoothly turns the nice youngster into...
...Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Nancy Olson, Valerie Bettis and Cathleen Nesbitt waged an exciting conflict for domination of the manless stage. A few of the more trenchant lines were dropped from the TV version of the play, and Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland seemed miscast as the viper-tongued Sylvia Fowler and the gigolo-collecting Countess de Lage...