Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film's producers were apparently aware that audiences are as sick of the tale of intrigue in a Balkan bungalow as they are of Jeannette McDonald. So they got smart and rigged up a whole new story. There was only one flaw in the plan: the new story was just as bad as the old one. They also thought they'd provide an antidote to the somewhat ghastly charms of Miss McDonald. So they raided--and that word is more descriptive than you think--the Metropolitan Opera and came up with Rise Stevens. This little scheme fell through...
Sensitively and carefully produced, "All That Money Can Buy" is at the same time a forceful commentary on the American scene. With a superb cast that steps right out of Benet's story, it is a heart warming tale of very human people,--people you might know yourself. This assumes that you don't know Mr. Scratch, otherwise known as the Devil. But you'll know him and like him after you see Walter Houston's sly, mischievous interpretation of a role that could easily be overdone...
...almost everyone knows by now, TMWCTD is the tale of a famous crosscountry lecturer who is forced to go to a dull dinner party in Mesalia, Ohio, injures a hip on his hosts' icy steps, and has to stay for weeks. The part, originally created for Woollcott himself, has by this time become at least half Woolley...
...outcome of this fruitless face-saving is a silly tale of the undoing of little Poppy, who is fresh out of a Swiss finishing school, looks and acts it. She has an affair with Doc Omar. This upsets Sir Guy, who is still more upset when he discovers that Mother Gin Sling is his Chinese wife, whom he had long thought dead. That disclosure makes the slightly tarnished Poppy behave so badly that her mother shoots her dead, and everyone goes home...
Pied Piper reads like a semi-final draft for one of the best sentimental novels to come out of World War II. The telling is not all it might be, but the materials of the tale are surefire...