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There were those in Longfield, Miss. who thought that Albert Clayton was getting too big for his britches. He was a hardworking, illiterate sharecropper who had cleared all of $43 the year before, and this year's prospects didn't even look as good as that. In 15...
Elopement (20th Century-Fox) is a bogus little comedy about a young couple (Anne Francis and William Lundigan) who run off to get married and are pursued by two sets of indignant parents determined to stop them. Once thrown together, the girl's uppity parents and the boy'...
Actress Ritter's uncommon talent is for the common touch. She wields it this time as the down-to-earth mother of a social-climbing junior executive (John Lund). When Lund marries a diplomat's daughter (Gene Tierney) and lands in her circle of snobs, he cannot bring...
By knowing what rules he had to obey, Rowan managed to stay out of trouble. He dressed well in Tennessee, knowing that good clothes bring a Negro better treatment that far north. But when he got to some of the small towns in the Deep South, he changed to rough...
Grounds for Marriage (MGM) dishes up some farcical leftovers about a divorcee (Kathryn Grayson) on the make for her ex-husband (Van Johnson). The dialogue and plot maneuvers are determinedly labeled for comedy and remarkably scant of laughs. Since Opera Singer Grayson develops voice trouble and Physician Johnson is a...