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...band of genuinely old troupers Raymond Walburn (78), Ernest Truex (75), Madge Kennedy (75), and Ethel Griffies (87), plus Ingénue Heidi Murray (17), handle with finesse lines that they ought scarcely to have touched. As Mrs. Lord, Ruth Gordon (69) relies on her trademarks rather than her talents, notably a nasally barbaric yawp of a voice that would have stopped Genghis Khan in his Asiatic steppes. Woman is her lost labor of self-love...
...most part, Capra clings so faithfully to Broadway Bill that in one sequence he appears to have lifted scenes bodily out of the old picture without bothering to reshoot them. Among the performers playing a return engagement: Raymond Walburn as a gentlemanly tout, Clarence Muse as a trainer, Douglas Dumbrille as a big-time gambler, Frankie Darro as a crooked jockey. As extra dividends, Capra has plumped out the cast with some new players who are a match for them, especially William Demarest, who plays Walburn's sidekick, Charles Bickford as a dyspeptic millionaire, Percy Kilbride as a hayseed...
...Raymond Walburn and Mary Wickes, moviedom Sad Sacks, in company with Jed Prouty and Robert Chisholm, turn in top character jobs all good for the expectable number of laughs. "Don't Be a Woman if You Can" is first-rate patter and "There's No Holding Me" likeable ballad. But there's no getting around something stale--you've heard it before, you've seen it before, and it isn't good enough this time to make you think you haven...
Heavenly Days (RKO-Radio) is that dangerous film from whose political propaganda the U.S. once proposed to protect its troops (TIME, Aug. 21). Possible reasons: 1) in a dream sequence silk-hatted Capitalist Raymond Walburn plants a spatted foot on the neck of Common Man Fibber McGee; 2) elsewhere McGee murmurs some higher economics about making supply meet demand; 3) still elsewhere, Soap-Boxer McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington...
Christmas in July (Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Ernest Truex; TIME...