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...After her divorce, she was the great & good friend in his last years of life-weary Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (and claims that she was the inspiration for the Hollywood girl in The Last Tycoon). After Fitzgerald died, Sheilah was married for six years to British aircraft production Expert Trevor Westbrook, and bore him two children: Frances, now nine, and Robert, six. With the children, Sheilah lives on "something under $50,000" a year in a pleasant stucco house only four doors away from Queen Louella Parsons, with whom she is on seemingly friendly terms...
...deceptively slow opening sequence, "Clouded Yellow" follows ex-espionage agent Trevor Howard as he goes job-hunting in an inconspicuous white Jaguar SS. Eventually he finds employment in a lonely country mansion where Jean Simmons--beautiful as ever--is being driven mad by her conniving step-parents. Then someone tries to frame Miss Simmons for murder, Howard piles her into the trunk compartment and leaves town. Step-parents, police, and assorted MI-5 agents follow in hot pursuit...
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Filmakers; RKO Radio), a title that conjures up visions of a wanton wench on the marquee, turns out to apply to nothing more alluring than a tennis ball. The heroine (Sally Forrest) is a teen-aged tennis virtuoso whose selfish, frustrated mother (Claire Trevor) exploits the girl's talent to wangle a life of ease, travel and glamour...
While exposing the mother's schemes, the picture also purports to expose the corruption of amateur tennis. Mother Trevor and a smooth promoter (Carleton G. Young) use Sally's growing fame as bait not only for a free tour through the best hotels of two continents, but also for the commercial endorsements that pay for flashy automobiles and mink coats...
...script overplays Sally's rebellion and her mother's comeuppance as much as it exaggerates the spoils of tennis commercialism. Actress Trevor holds out best, but not entirely, against the abrupt, overwrought style that Director Ida Lupino, staging her fourth movie, seems to have carried over intact from her own jittery screen personality...