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Prisoner of Zenda (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Virginia Bruce co-star in Anthony Hope's popular story, on the Academy Award Theater...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Frederic Wakeman, who satirized radio in The Hucksters (TIME, June 3), defends his best-seller before a trio of critics...
...Easy to Wed (MGM) is polished and mounted with all the technical wizardry and great expense that M-G-M lavishes on its most precious jewels. The fact that this film is basically a blob of paste will not keep it from making its rich manufacturers considerably richer. The unbeatable ingredients: lively music, Technicolor, fine feathers, romance, colossal production numbers, slapstick, four big, sure-fire stars...
Adapted from a 1936 movie called Libeled Lady (starring Jean Harlow), the complicated plot of Easy to Wed is oddly obtrusive for a musical. Van Johnson, whose millions of avid fans were first won by his freckle-nosed, boyish charm, is woefully miscast as a professional wolf who makes a living by compromising ladies. Only Comedienne Lucille Ball, a brash, bubbling extravert who is frequently used to bolster up badly contrived Hollywood farces, remains unfazed and funny through...
Assuming that the neighborhood theater is comfortably air conditioned, Easy to Wed is a simpleminded, perfectly harmless way to kill a couple of sticky summer hours...