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Producer Hal Wallis has decked out this contrived story with standard melodramatic props: dark shadows, windblown curtains, the strangler's poised hands. Ed Begley has a nice bit part as a gambler with ulcers. Heston is appropriately tough with Nightclub Singer Lizabeth Scott and predictably sentimental with Widow Viveca...
Died. Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, 61, U.S.N. (ret.), first husband of Wallis Warfield, now Duchess of Windsor; of a heart ailment; in San Diego, Calif.
Backtalk & Business. His meeting with Wallis Warfield Simpson, at a house party, was hardly love at first sight. But later, visiting Mrs. Simpson's London salon, the Prince was impressed by her ease amid all the heady talk, and by her forthright backtalk ("One of the happier outcomes of...
Edward VIII had hardly been proclaimed King (with Wallis at his side at St. James's Palace as heralds boomed out the tidings) before he realized that "the King business" had its drawbacks. Item: he could not even take a walk in the rain because it brought criticism from...
Paid in Full (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a smoothly produced, competently played tearjerker about a self-sacrificing woman (Lizabeth Scott) who suffers & suffers. Having accidentally killed the only child that her sister (Diana Lynn) can have, she marries her brother-in-law (Robert Cummings) when his divorce comes through. Then...