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...Ada. A Louisiana doxy (Susan Hayward) marries a gubernatorial candidate she meets on the job and winds up first lady of the state...
...Ada. Despite an overly cute central idea and the flim-flamboyance of Star Susan Hayward, competent script and direction make this a pleasant political comedy about the road from bawdyhouse to Governor's mansion...
...Ada. Despite an overly cute central idea and the flim-flamboyance of Star Susan Hayward, competent script and direction make this a pleasant political coimdy about the road from bawdyhouse to Governor's mansion. Britain's Wilfrid Hyde White is superb as a major political snake...
...Ada (Avon-Chalmar; M-S-M)isafallen woman (Susan Hayward) who pulls herself up from bawdyhouse to governor's mansion by her garter straps. One election year in Louisiana, she entertains a cotton-pickin', git-tar-strummin' candidate for Governor (Dean Martin), who so deeply appreciates her "campaign contribution" that he asks her to marry him. She does, and when he wins in November the scarlet woman suddenly becomes the first lady...
...cute idea-maybe too cute. But the screenplay, worked up by Arthur Sheek-man and William Driskill from a novel (Ada Dallas) by Wirt Williams, develops it into a pleasant political comedy, and Daniel (Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend...