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Leading the latest procession from parlor to bedroom is the incomparable mountebank, Clifton Webb, gracefully balancing Noel's sheaf of tarts and darts. He hits the razor's edge with every gesture, shrug and intonation. Up against this kind of finesse Monty Wooley would be made to look like a blundering clod. Portraying the actor whose life aim begins and ends with his own convenience, Webb does a pungently sophisticated job of lechery and of molding the lives of the satellite circle of blustering men and urbane women who serve as his foils...
...Grant and Miss Smith, credit them with not wincing once while mouthing dialogue that would choke Mr. Arbuthnot. Also in the hapless cast are caustic Monty Wooley and warbling Ginny Simms, both of whom work hard and reasonably effectively throughout the film...
...takes a truly professional touch to keep matters from getting trite. Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Hilton, the young wife of the Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
...Since You Went Away," starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, and Monty Wooley. The story of the home left by an advertising man off for the wars...
...original was a sob drama of a dipsomaniac actor whose crippled daughter gets him back in condition for the stage, only to have him turn up crocked the opening night. End: suicide. The scripters have rewritten the part of fit Wooley, and the first fifteen minutes of the show are superb. From then on it's all out on the tear ducts, with Lupino clomping around and being too, too brave about it all, followed about by the worst juvenile lead of the year, mouthing the worst love language of the year...