Word: multiplex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tales of Manhattan (20th Century-Fox) is a multiplex answer to a Hollywood producer's dream-a show that telescopes parts for nine stars and five dramatic episodes in one over-all picture. The only continuity is provided by a tail coat which appears in each episode in a hand-me-down career from the shoulders of a rich wastrel to a scarecrow...
...pathetic, lovable little son. It had such veteran actors as Walter Hampden, Helen Westley, Fritz Leiber (very sinister as a saintly father confessor). It had décors gorgeous enough to have come straight out of a cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field's 1840 period plot about the high-minded love of Governess Bette Davis and Charles Boyer which passes into tragedy, prison and ostracism after the thrilling unsolved murder of the Duchess, presumably by the Duke...