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Against this background, a dramatic story and the acting of a fine cast, four of whose members were in the stage version, make Winterset, brilliantly directed by Alfred Santell, a production that is sure to be listed among the best pictures of the year...
...total effect of "Life's a Villain" is somewhat bewildering. The title, the first sight of the sophisticated crowd which serves as a background for the main story, the first blares of commonness from nouvelles-riches Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Turner; all lead one to expect social commentary rather than sentiment, for surely these people are not here just to be amusing. But then you do get the sentiment. And it's often quite nice. One only wishes that he did not get that disturbing feeling of something not quite said...
...cast will be in costume, silhouette's against a scenery background of rococco screens designed by students. There has been no professional or professional help at all in any of the coaching, musical arrangements or program...
...began to receive last week anonymous notes postmarked in London's fashionable Mayfair and threatening her life. Many were written in such cultivated terms as to suggest that some of the poison-penpushers may very well be peeresses or at least English gentlemen with a public school background...
Jack Benny consents to be the background, if a somewhat conspicuous one, for the whole complex picture. As the manager of a radio hour for which George Burns and Gracie Allen are the sponsors, one of his major tribulations is coping with the lunacy of Gracie, which is only slightly suppressed by George. Then there are Shirley Ross and Ray Milland, who in addition to further complicating things for Jack Benny, supply the indispensable young love. Miss Ross, in acting very badly and running away, gives Martha Raye, the substitute, a chance to be undignified and unladylike to her heart...